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VVhich immence and woonderfull forme, with a maruelous and exquise Symmetrie and due proportion mounting vp laboursomly foote by foote, conteyned 1410. degrees or steppes, taking away 10. degrees to make vp the head and gracilament of the Pyramides in whose place was set a huge Cube or foure square stone of forme like a dye, sound and firme of a monstrous thicknesse and incredible weight to bee carryed so high.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Figure, Symmetrie, Waight, Characterization, & due Locall motion of any percell of the said body assigned: and of numbers to the said percell appertaining.
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567
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Now, may you, of any * Gunne, or little peece of ordinaũce, make an other, with the same _Symmetrie_ (in all pointes) as great, and as little, as you will.
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567
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_Manneken_, (as the _Dutch_ Painters terme it) in the same _Symmetrie_, may a Giant be made: and that, with any gesture, by the Manneken vsed: and contrarywise.
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567
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\ wahre Symmetrie, und alles Einigkeit. fnd alles ift ein Gut des Ganzen, was in Theilen 429
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[Note.] by certaine order, nũber, forme, figure, and _Symmetrie_ mentall:” all naturall & sensible stuffe set a part.
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567
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