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Since you incourage me so much I will proceded in
thos calculations of, [Mars]. and as I finish anie I will
send them unto you. indeed to find the issue so
[???] and in the later so impossible to be re-
conciled had utterlie discouraged me, but that
now by your letter I perceave ther may bee good
use made such of ther discordance; therfore of
this I will say no more till I send you more.
the leasure that the countrie life affordeth us here
hath given me meanes to run over manie things
since I left the course of calculation; but amongst
others the, 3. vexations of scientificall mortals hath
held me most to wit the squaringe of the circle the
dubblinge of the Cube and the Philosophers stone. from the
two first I am come of handsomelie enough and
have made my selfe much sporte in the discove-
rie of mine owne parallogismes. but in the later
I sticke still and am like to make you sporte
ere I come fairelie of. but indeed I have here
much otime and therfore I may cast awaye some
of it in vaine pursuites. chusynge alwayes ra-
ther to doe somethinge worth nothinge then no-
thinge att all. How farre I had proceeded in
this, I ment now to have given you an account,
but that the report of the unfortunate erles re-
lapse into calamitie make me beleve that
you are enough troubled both with his misfortuntes
and my La: troubles; and so a discourse of this
nature would be unseasonable. neverthelesse
give me leave to crave a worde or two in
answere of thes doubts which I will breifelie pro
pound as
thos calculations of, [Mars]. and as I finish anie I will
send them unto you. indeed to find the issue so
[???] and in the later so impossible to be re-
conciled had utterlie discouraged me, but that
now by your letter I perceave ther may bee good
use made such of ther discordance; therfore of
this I will say no more till I send you more.
the leasure that the countrie life affordeth us here
hath given me meanes to run over manie things
since I left the course of calculation; but amongst
others the, 3. vexations of scientificall mortals hath
held me most to wit the squaringe of the circle the
dubblinge of the Cube and the Philosophers stone. from the
two first I am come of handsomelie enough and
have made my selfe much sporte in the discove-
rie of mine owne parallogismes. but in the later
I sticke still and am like to make you sporte
ere I come fairelie of. but indeed I have here
much otime and therfore I may cast awaye some
of it in vaine pursuites. chusynge alwayes ra-
ther to doe somethinge worth nothinge then no-
thinge att all. How farre I had proceeded in
this, I ment now to have given you an account,
but that the report of the unfortunate erles re-
lapse into calamitie make me beleve that
you are enough troubled both with his misfortuntes
and my La: troubles; and so a discourse of this
nature would be unseasonable. neverthelesse
give me leave to crave a worde or two in
answere of thes doubts which I will breifelie pro
pound as
1. first whether, [sun]. and, [moon].
bodies so difficulte
be dissolved as alchimists affirme. I meane
by dissolution(as I thinke they doe) that they meane must
bee putrified and
be dissolved as alchimists affirme. I meane
by dissolution(as I thinke they doe) that they meane must
bee putrified and
2. if they may be dissolved, whether with one simple
alone or with
alone or with
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