The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, aenigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medals, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphers and rebus (1648)

Estienne, Henry, sieur des Fossez, Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679, Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, Royston, Richard, 1599-1686, bookseller · London : Printed for Richard Royston, and are to be sold at the Angell in Ivie Lane · leaf 22

An illustration from The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, aenigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medals, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphers and rebus, 1648, leaf 22 — . I. Of Hieroglyphic^ Here is no doubt, but that after the Hebrewes, theEgyptians were the firft that did moft precifclyaddift themftlves to all manner of Sciences ; nordid they profcfle any on»?, which they cftccmedmore commendable, then that of Hiero^lyphick/,which held the firft rank among their… … 2 of Hiero^lyphicks* Philo the Jew confirmes this more cleerly in the life ofMofexwhich he hath written; where it is obfcrved, that Mefes hadlearned from the Doftorsof Egypt, Arithmetic^., Geometry^ andMtifiqui, as well pr»<5lick as Theorick, together with this hidd«nPhyiofophie,exprcfled…

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