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The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, aenigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medalls, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphres and rebus (1646)

Estienne, Henry, sieur des Fossez, Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679 · London : Printed by W.E. and J.G. and are to be sold by Humphrey Moseley ... · leaf 24

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Chap. I.Of Hieroglyphtck^. Here i$ no doubt, but that after the Hebrevvcs, theEgyptians were the firft that did moft precifelyaddid themfclvestoall manner of Sciences ; nordid they profefle any on?, which they efteemedmore commendable, then that of Hieroglyphick/,which held the firft rank among… … of Hiere^lyphiclcs,Philo the J ew Gonfirmes this more clecrly in the life oFAtofeswhich he hath written ; where it is obfervtd, that Mtfes hadIcirned from the Doftorsof Egypt, Arithmetick,, Gedmetry^ andAdtffujHe, as well prtiflick as thcorick, together with this hiddtnPhylofophit ,exprt{Tcd…

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