Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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            might be done) the Point on the Semicircle
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            h z m, as far as the Parallels (as 9 m) are uſeful:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1195" xml:space="preserve">For when theſe Parallels are uſeleſs, the Point
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            q will fall beyond the Point m: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1196" xml:space="preserve">But then the
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            Perſpective of the Torus is entirely drawn alrea-
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            dy, if thoſe Parallels were firſt begun to be drawn
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            near to 6 3 z, and the others continually going
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            from it.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1198" xml:space="preserve">In order to demonſtrate this Problem, the fol-
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            lowing Lemma is neceſſary.</s>
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            <emph style="sc">Lemma</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1200" xml:space="preserve">65. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1201" xml:space="preserve">If two Circles C D H E and D E F L cut
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            each other, thro’ whoſe Centers C and B the Line
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            C L paſſes, and D E joyns their Interſections;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1202" xml:space="preserve">then, if the Radius A C or A H be called a, and
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            B F or BL, b, and the Diſtance A B between the
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            two Centers c, I ſay A G is equal to {bb—aa/ec}—{1/2}C.</s>
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            <emph style="sc">Demonstration</emph>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1204" xml:space="preserve">Let us call A G, x, and G D or G E, y.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1205" xml:space="preserve">Then by the Property of the Circle, if y be conceiv’d
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            as an Ordinate of the Circle, C D H; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1206" xml:space="preserve">yy=aa—xx. </s>
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            And if it be likewiſe conſider’d as an Ordinate of
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            the Circle F D L, yy=bb—cc—2cx—xx: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1208" xml:space="preserve">Whence
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            aa—xx=bb—cc—2cx—xx, and ſo 2cx=bb
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            —aa—cc; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1209" xml:space="preserve">and dividing each Side of this laſt Equa-
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            tion by 2c, we have a x={bb—aa/2c}{1/2} c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1210" xml:space="preserve">Which was
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            to be Demonſtrated.</s>
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