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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          <head xml:id="echoid-head71" xml:space="preserve">EXTRACT from PAPPUS's Preface to his Seventh Book
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          in Dr. HALLEY's Tranſlation.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head72" xml:space="preserve">DE SECTIONE DETERMINATA II.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s943" xml:space="preserve">HIS ſubjiciuntur libri duo de Sectione Determinatâ,
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            quas etiam ad modum præcedentium unam pro-
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            poſitionem dicere liceat, ſed disjunctam: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s944" xml:space="preserve">quæ hujuſ-
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            modi eſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s945" xml:space="preserve">“ Datam rectam infinitam in uno puncto ſe-
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            care, ita, ut è rectis interceptis inter illud & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s946" xml:space="preserve">puncta
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            in illâ data, vel quadratum ex unâ, vel rectangulum
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            ex duabus interceptis, datam habeat rationem, vel ad
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            contentum ſub aliâ unâ interceptâ & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s947" xml:space="preserve">datá quâdum;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s948" xml:space="preserve">vel etiam ad contentum ſub duabus aliis interceptis: </s>
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            idque ad quam partem velis punctorum datorum.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s950" xml:space="preserve">”
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            Hujus autem, quaſi bis disjunctæ, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s951" xml:space="preserve">intricatos Dio-
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            riſmos habentis, per plura neceſſario facta eſt demon-
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            ſtratio. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s952" xml:space="preserve">Hanc autem dedit Apollonius communi methodo
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            tentamen faciens, ac ſolis rectis lineis uſus, ad exemplum
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            ſecundi libri Elementorum primorum Euclidis: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s953" xml:space="preserve">ac rur- ſus idem demonſtravit ingenioſe quidem, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s954" xml:space="preserve">magis ad
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            inſtitutionem accomodate, per ſemicirculos. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s955" xml:space="preserve">Habet
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              <note symbol="*" position="foot" xlink:label="note-0061-01" xlink:href="note-0061-01a" xml:space="preserve">From hence it appears that
                <emph style="sc">Euclid's</emph>
              were called the firſt Elements,
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              and that the other Analytical Tracts, recited by
                <emph style="sc">Pappus,</emph>
              were called the
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              ſecond Elements.</note>
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