15377
[Translation: ]
[Commentary:
The reference to Simon Stevin is to L'arithmétique ... aussi l'algebre
(Stevin . The equation written here as appears in Stevin's discussion of cubic equation lacking a square term (Problem LXIX). This equation was Stevin's third case, treated at length on pages 314 to 318. See Add MS 6783
f. for Stevin's first and second cases.
Stevin went on to treat cubics lacking a linear term in Problem LXX, though not the specific example treated here by Harriot. ]
Stevin went on to treat cubics lacking a linear term in Problem LXX, though not the specific example treated here by Harriot. ]
[Translation: ]
Reductiones in istis chartis
habentur apud Simonem Stevinum ut alios
quas adposui ad illarum easdem rationes
[Translation: The reductions in these sheets are to be found in Simon Stevin and others, which I have put so that the same reasons as theirs may be understood. Sed nostra
[Translation: But in my ]
habentur apud Simonem Stevinum ut alios
quas adposui ad illarum easdem rationes
[Translation: The reductions in these sheets are to be found in Simon Stevin and others, which I have put so that the same reasons as theirs may be understood. Sed nostra
[Translation: But in my ]
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