The History of the Reformation of the Church of England

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Part Latin, he was exact in them; and apt to learn every thing. Nor was he ignorant of logic, of the 1547. principles of natural philosophy, nor of music. The sweetness of his temper was such as became a mortal, his gravity becoming the majesty of a king, and his disposition suitable to his high degree. In...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Part Latin, he was exact in them; and apt to learn every thing. Nor was he ignorant of logic, of the 1547. principles of natural philosophy, nor of music. The sweetness of his temper was such as became a mortal, his gravity becoming the majesty of a king, and his disposition suitable to his high degree. In sum, that child was so bred, had such parts, was of such expectation, that he looked like a miracle of a man. These things are not spoken rhetori- cally, and beyond the truth, but are indeed short of it. And afterwards he adds, He was a mar- vellous boy. When I was with him, he was in the fifteenth year of his age, in which he spake Latin as politely and as promptly as I did: he asked me what was the subject of my books, de Rerum Varietate, which I had dedicated to him? I an- swered, that in the first chapter I gave the true cause of comets, which had been long inquired into, but was never found out before. What is it ? said he. I said, it was the concourse of the light of wandering stars. He answered, how can that be, since the stars move in different motions ? how comes it that the comets are not soon dissipated, or do not move after them according to their mo- tions ? To this I answered, they do move after them, but much quicker than they, by reason of the different aspect, as we see in a crystal, or when a rainbow rebounds from the wall: for a little change makes a great difference of place. But the king said, how can that be, where there is no subject to receive that light, as the wall is the subject for the rainbow ? To this I answered, that this was as in the milky-way, or where many candles were lighted, the middle place where their shining met was white and clear. From this lit- Book tle ta...