fac enim minimis e partibus esse corpora prima tribus, vel paulo pluribus auge: nempe ubi eas partis unius corporis omnis, summa atque ima locans, transmutans dextera laevis, omnimodis expertus eris, quam quisque det ordo formai speciem totius corporis eius, quod superest, si forte voles variare figuras, addendum partis alias erit; inde sequetur, adsimili ratione alias ut postulet ordo, si tu forte voles etiam variare figuras.
suppose, for instance, the first bodies to consist of three smallest parts, or increase that number by a few more; naturally, when you take all those parts of one body, and by placing them top or bottom, and transposing right and left, you have tried in all possible ways what shape of that whole body each order gives, if after all you wish perhaps to vary the shapes, other parts must be added; and it will follow that in like manner the arrangement will demand other parts, if you perhaps wish to vary the shapes yet further.
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