Item qui Ctesibii aut Archimedis et ceterorum, qui eiusdem generis praecepta conscripserunt, leget, sentire non poterit, nisi his rebus a philosophis erit institutus.
So also the man who reads the works of Ctesibius or Archimedes and of others who have written manuals of the same kind will not be able to perceive their meaning, unless he has been instructed herein by philosophers.
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