Huygens, Christiaan, Christiani Hugenii opera varia; Bd. 2: Opera geometrica. Opera astronomica. Varia de optica

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            portionales fieri poſſit, ubi ratio tangentis ad abſciſ-
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            ſam eſt ea quæ numeri ad numerum, hinc apparuit curvam
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            quæſitam tunc iis accenſendam quæ geometricæ vocantur,
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            alias eſſe ex heterogeneis; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5154" xml:space="preserve">ac tamen conſtructionem dari
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            poſita lineæ logarithmicæ deſcriptione, quam quidem hic ad-
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            ducerem, niſi viderem haud difficulter ex ipſa Jacobi Ber-
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            noullii doctiſſima ſimul breviſſimaque ſolutione omnia erui
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            poſſe, ut jam ab aliis occupatam dubitem.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5156" xml:space="preserve">Colligitur vero ex his illud animadverſione dignum,
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            nempe quandocunque in inveſtigatione curvarum ex tan-
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            gentibus aut ſubtangentibus ejus, ad ſimiles ei, quam dixi,
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            æquationes pervenietur, aut in quibus habeatur utrinque
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            elementum ſpatii ad trapezium hyperbolicum reductibilis;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5157" xml:space="preserve">tunc idem hoc, quod mirabile hic accidit, eventurum, ut
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            curvæ geometricæ diverſorum generum graduumque exi-
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            ſtant, ſi hyperbolarum ad quas devenitur rectangula
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            quæ in aſymptotis, ſint commenſurabilia. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5158" xml:space="preserve">Præterea
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            obſervanda venit in hoc problemate inuſitata ac ſin-
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            gularis analyſis via, quæ ad alia multa in hac Tan-
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            gentium doctrina aditum aperit, ut egregie jam ani-
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            madvertit Vir Celeberrimus calculi differentialis inven-
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            tor, ſine quo vix eſſet, ut ad haſce geometriæ ſubti-
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            litates admitteremur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5159" xml:space="preserve">Porro quod ad curvarum, de qui-
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            bus agitur, deſignationem in plano attinet, poſſem, ſi
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            operæ pretium eſſet, alios modos ac fortaſſe com-
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            modiores indicare quam qui a Cl. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5160" xml:space="preserve">Bernoullio præſcri-
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            bitur, atque etiam docere qua ratione optime peraga-
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            tur deſcriptio noſtræ quadratricis hyperbolæ, quæ in-
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            ter Tractorias (ita enim vocari poſſunt) ſimpliciſſi-
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            ma cenſenda eſt, cum ad eam filis nihil opus ſit,
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            ſed bacillo tantum utrimque cuſpidem lateri infixam
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            habente, quo fit ut & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5161" xml:space="preserve">regreſſu explorari poſſit quam
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            recte exarata ſit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5162" xml:space="preserve">Sed his ſuperſedendum arbitror, do-
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            nec inſignis uſus aliquis harum linearum in lucem
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            proferatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5163" xml:space="preserve">Interim aliam quandam utiliſſimam </s>
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