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Henry Billingsley
( - 22 Nov 1606)
who became an alderman, and later Lord Mayor, of London. He was the first to make an English translation of Euclid's works (1570).
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Science Quotes by Henry Billingsley (1)
Many arts there are which beautify the mind of man; of all other none do more garnish and beautify it than those arts which are called mathematical.
— Henry Billingsley
The Elements of Geometric of the most ancient Philosopher Euclide of Megara (1570), Note to the Reader. In Robert Édouard Moritz, Memorabilia Mathematica; Or, The Philomath's Quotation-book (1914), 44.
