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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[11.] PROBLEM IV.
[12.] PROBLEM V.
[13.] The general Solution.
[14.] PROBLEM VI.
[15.] The general Solution.
[16.] PROBLEM VII.
[17.] LEMMA I.
[18.] PROBLEM VIII.
[19.] Mr. Simpſon conſtructs the Problem thus.
[20.] PROBLEM IX.
[21.] LEMMA II.
[22.] LEMMA III.
[23.] PROBLEM X.
[24.] PROBLEM XI.
[25.] PROBLEM XII .
[26.] LEMMA IV.
[27.] LEMMA V.
[28.] PROBLEM XIII.
[29.] PROBLEM XIV.
[30.] SUPPLEMENT. PROBLEM I.
[31.] PROBLEM II.
[32.] PROBLEM III.
[33.] PROBLEM IV.
[34.] PROBLEM V.
[35.] PROBLEM VI.
[36.] General Solution.
[37.] A SECOND SUPPLEMENT, BEING Monſ. DE FERMAT’S Treatiſe on Spherical Tangencies. PROBLEM I.
[38.] PROBLEM II.
[39.] PROBLEM III.
[40.] PROBLEM IV.
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              <emph style="sc">From</emph>
            A draw two perpendiculars to the right lines DB, ZC; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s352" xml:space="preserve">viz. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s353" xml:space="preserve">ADF and
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            AZX; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s354" xml:space="preserve">and in theſe perpendiculars take DF, ZX, on “either ſide of D and Z,
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            equal to the Radius of the given circle: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s355" xml:space="preserve">and through F
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            and X draw lines pa-
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            rallel to DB, ZC; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s356" xml:space="preserve">viz. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s357" xml:space="preserve">FG, XH; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s358" xml:space="preserve">and then by the preceding Problem draw
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            a circle which ſhall paſs through the given center A and touch the two lines
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            FG, XH; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s359" xml:space="preserve">and E the center of this circle will alſo be the center of the circle
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            required, as appears by ſubtracting equals from equals in Figure 1: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s360" xml:space="preserve">and by adding
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            equals to equals in Figure 2.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head26" xml:space="preserve">LEMMA II.</head>
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              <emph style="sc">If</emph>
            the two circles CEB and CED cut one another C, then I ſay a line drawn
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            from the point of ſection CBD cutting both circles, will cut off diſſimilar ſeg-
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            ments from thoſe circles.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s364" xml:space="preserve">1ſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s365" xml:space="preserve">
              <emph style="sc">Suppose</emph>
            CB to be the Diameter of one of them: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s366" xml:space="preserve">then draw to the
              <lb/>
            other point of ſection E the line CE, and joining EB, ED, the angle CEB will
              <lb/>
            be a right one, and the angle CED either greater or leſs than a right one, and
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            conſequently CD cannot be a Diameter of the other.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s368" xml:space="preserve">2dly. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s369" xml:space="preserve">
              <emph style="sc">Suppose</emph>
            CBD not to paſs through the center of either: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s370" xml:space="preserve">then through
              <lb/>
            C draw a Diameter CAG, and continue it to meet the other circle in F, and
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            join BG, DF: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s371" xml:space="preserve">then the angle CBG is a right one, and the angle CDF is either
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            greater or leſs than a right one: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s372" xml:space="preserve">and therefore the lines BG and DF are not
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            parallel: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s373" xml:space="preserve">let H be the center of the other circle, and let a Diameter CHI be
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            drawn: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s374" xml:space="preserve">draw DI and continue it meet to meet CG in K: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s375" xml:space="preserve">then DIK will be pa-
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            rallel to BG: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s376" xml:space="preserve">hence CB: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s377" xml:space="preserve">CD:</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s378" xml:space="preserve">: CG: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s379" xml:space="preserve">CK. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s380" xml:space="preserve">But CI and CK are unequal,
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            (being both applied from the ſame point in a right angle) and therefore it cannot
              <lb/>
            be 2s CB: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s381" xml:space="preserve">CD:</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s382" xml:space="preserve">: CG: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s383" xml:space="preserve">CI: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s384" xml:space="preserve">and hence it appears that the Segments CB and
              <lb/>
            CD are diſſimilar.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head27" xml:space="preserve">LEMMA III.</head>
          <p>
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              <emph style="sc">If</emph>
            through the legs of any triangle EDF (ſee Figure to Problem 10.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s387" xml:space="preserve">a line
              <lb/>
            BI be
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            drawn parallel to the baſe DF, ſo that there be conſtituted two ſimilar
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            triangles about the ſame vertex; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s388" xml:space="preserve">and a circle be circumſcribed about each of
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            theſe triangles; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s389" xml:space="preserve">theſe circles will touch one another in the common vertex E.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s391" xml:space="preserve">
              <emph style="sc">It</emph>
            is plain that they will either touch or cut each other in the point E: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s392" xml:space="preserve">if
              <lb/>
            they cut each other, then by the preceding Lemma the Segments BE and DE
              <lb/>
            would be diſſimilar; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s393" xml:space="preserve">but they are ſimilar, and they muſt therefore touch each
              <lb/>
            other.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head28" xml:space="preserve">PROBLEM X.</head>
          <p>
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              <emph style="sc">Having</emph>
            a point A, and alſo a right line BC, given in poſition; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s396" xml:space="preserve">together
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            with a circle whoſe center is G given both in m
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            de and
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            poſition; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s397" xml:space="preserve">to </s>
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