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WHO ARE YOU, THAT YOU REQUIRE SCIENCE?, 1584 - topics: travel,court_patronage,household_family,letters_books

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7 Oct. - Daybook Entries. Records travel, court patronage, household family, letters books: Sunday, mane hora 7.

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Records travel, court patronage, household family, letters books: Sunday, mane hora 7. I went to the Lord Ambassador his house, and there I learned that the Ambassador had yesterday delivered my letter to his Majesty: and that answer was to be expected at Dr Curtz. After dinner I went to Dr Curtz home to his lodging, and he...

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WHO ARE YOU, THAT YOU REQUIRE SCIENCE?, 1584

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travel,court_patronage,household_family,letters_books

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Sunday, mane hora 7. I went to the Lord Ambassador his house, and there I learned that the Ambassador had yesterday delivered my letter to his Majesty: and that answer was to be expected at Dr Curtz. After dinner I went to Dr Curtz home to his lodging, and he had nothing as yet to say of the letter delivered by the Lord Ambassador. But we fell to other talk, and I told him plainly that I had not hitherto lived obscurely, neither without care of my good fame and name maintaining and increasing. Therefore if here for my sincere dealing I should seem to be despised, or not regarded, or to be but a trifler, my thought I should haye great injury. And sure I was that the Emperor's Majesty was much ruled by him, and as he did frame his judgement, so did his Majesty very oft resolve in such matters as mine; wherefore if I were not used in my causes as was reasonable, and for the Emperor's honour, it should not be laid to any other man's charge but to his, &c. He promised that he would deliver all in the best words he could, in friendly sort, &c. After this he showed divers his labours and inventions mathematical, and chiefly arithmetical tables, both for his invention by squares to have the minute and second of observations astronomical, and so for the mending of Nonnius 11 his invention of the quadrant dividing in 90, 91, 92, 93, &c. I then opened to him my secret of my glass, for battering in a dark night, &c. He said that conclusion would be very acceptable to his Majesty. I told him that the glass was at Cracovia, and his Majesty should see it by God's leave. After this I told him that I would full fain have a passport or safe conduct to pass quietly and safely in any of the Emperor's dominions. He thought his Majesty would willingly grant that, and willed me to write three or four lines as I would have it.

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Sunday, mane hora 7. I went to the Lord Ambassador his house, and there I learned that the Ambassador had yesterday delivered my letter to his Majesty: and that answer was to be expected at Dr Curtz. After dinner I went to Dr Curtz home to his lodging, and he had nothing as yet to say of the letter delivered by the Lord Ambassador. But we fell to other talk, and I told him plainly that I had not hitherto lived obscurely, neither without care of my good fame and name maintaining and increasing. Therefore if here for my sincere dealing I should seem to be despised, or not regarded, or to be but a trifler, my thought I should haye great injury. And sure I was that the Emperor's Majesty was much ruled by him, and as he did frame his judgement, so did his Majesty very oft resolve in such matters as mine; wherefore if I were not used in my causes as was reasonable, and for the Emperor's honour, it should not be laid to any other man's charge but to his, &c. He promised that he would deliver all in the best words he could, in friendly sort, &c. After this he showed divers his labours and inventions mathematical, and chiefly arithmetical tables, both for his invention by squares to have the minute and second of observations astronomical, and so for the mending of Nonnius 11 his invention of the quadrant dividing in 90, 91, 92, 93, &c. I then opened to him my secret of my glass, for battering in a dark night, &c. He said that conclusion would be very acceptable to his Majesty. I told him that the glass was at Cracovia, and his Majesty should see it by God's leave. After this I told him that I would full fain have a passport or safe conduct to pass quietly and safely in any of the Emperor's dominions. He thought his Majesty would willingly grant that, and willed me to write three or four lines as I would have it.