To avoide the tediouse repetition of these woordes: is equalle to: I will settle as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of paralleles, or gemowe [twin] lines of one lengthe: =, bicause noe .2. thynges, can be moare equalle.
Quoted in G Simmons Calculus Gems (New York 1992).
Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)
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