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

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            ſay ſomething by way of Preface to the Performance which
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            I herewith offer to the Public, the difficulty I find in doing it with
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            propriety, would have determined me to remain entirely ſilent.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s972" xml:space="preserve">The ſubject has employed the Pen of one of the ableſt Geometers
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            of the laſt Century; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s973" xml:space="preserve">it may therefore ſeem very preſumptuous, in
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            me at leaſt, who am but young in theſe matters, to attempt it after
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            him. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s974" xml:space="preserve">To obviate, if poſſible, this Cenſure is my only intention
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            here; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s975" xml:space="preserve">and I hope I ſhall not be deemed impertinent, if I attempt to
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            ſhew wherein I apprehend I have come nearer to the great original
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