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IN AUTHOREM.
EAch Science termes of Art hathwherewithall
To expresse themselves, calld Technologicall.
Logicke doth teach what Prædicables bee,
Genus and Species, * with the other three.
Philosophie, purblind in the first Creation,
Talks of first Matters forme, and void Privation.
Geographie teaches how for to define
Tropicks, Meridians, and the Æquators line.
So words of Art belong to Navigation
And ships, which here from thee receive translation;
That now th' untraveld land-man may with ease
Here know the language both of ships and Seas.
I have no Art of words due praise to impart
To thee that thus expound'st these words of Art.
To expresse themselves, calld Technologicall.
Logicke doth teach what Prædicables bee,
Genus and Species, * with the other three.
Philosophie, purblind in the first Creation,
Talks of first Matters forme, and void Privation.
Geographie teaches how for to define
Tropicks, Meridians, and the Æquators line.
So words of Art belong to Navigation
And ships, which here from thee receive translation;
That now th' untraveld land-man may with ease
Here know the language both of ships and Seas.
I have no Art of words due praise to impart
To thee that thus expound'st these words of Art.
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3. Possibly the first appearance of this word in print, perhaps invented by "W. S."
(see n, below), although the meaning has shifted considerably in modern times. Below,
Aristotelian logic provided four "predicables," but the early Schoolmen expanded these
to five: genus, species, difference, property, and accident, to one or other of which every
predicated thing may be referred.
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