Apollonius <Pergaeus>; Lawson, John, The two books of Apollonius Pergaeus, concerning tangencies, as they have been restored by Franciscus Vieta and Marinus Ghetaldus : with a supplement to which is now added, a second supplement, being Mons. Fermat's Treatise on spherical tangencies
cles deſcribed about them will touch each other in the common vertex G.</s>
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<note symbol="*" position="foot" xml:space="preserve">There are other Conſtructions of this Problem in Hugo de Omerique, Simpſon, and the Mathematician.
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See alſo Monthly Review for Oct. 1764, where the Reviewer is pleaſed to ſpeak favourably of the 1ſt Edi-
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tion of this work, but wiſhes that ſome modern ſolutions of theſe Problems had been inſerted, which, he
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ſays, are more conciſe and elegant than any which are to be met with in the works of the Antients. The
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Editor acknowledges that the conſtruction there given is more ſimple than Vieta’s; but Vieta is not an
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Antient, and he knows of no others that exceed his.</note>