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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[Item 1.]
[2.] THE TWO BOOKS OF APOLLONIUS PERGÆUS, CONCERNING TANGENCIES, As they have been Reſtored by FRANCISCUSVIET A and MARINUSGHETALDUS. WITH A SUPPLEMENT.
[3.] THE SECOND EDITION. TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED, A SECOND SUPPLEMENT, BEING Monſ. FERMAT’S Treatiſe on Spherical Tangencies. LONDON: Printed by G. BIGG, Succeſſor to D. LEACH. And ſold by B. White, in Fleet-Street; L. Davis, in Holborne, J. Nourse, in the Strand; and T. Payne, near the Mews-Gate. MDCCLXXI.
[4.] PREFACE.
[5.] EXTRACT from PAPPUS’s Preſace to his Seventh Book in Dr. HALLEY’s Tranſlation. DE TACTIONIBUS II.
[6.] Synopsis of the PROBLEMS.
[7.] PROBLEMS CONCERNING TANGENCIES. PROBLEM I.
[8.] PROBLEM II.
[9.] PROBLEM III.
[10.] The GENERAL Solution.
[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.
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head7" xml:space="preserve">PREFACE.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5" xml:space="preserve">OF the twelve Analytical Treatiſes recited by Pappus in
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            his Preface to the 7th Book of his Mathematical Col-
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            lections, we have very little of the Originals remaining, viz.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6" xml:space="preserve">only Euclid’s Data, and part of Apollonius’s Conics. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7" xml:space="preserve">The
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            loſs of the reſt is very much to be lamented by all Lovers of
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            the Mathematics. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8" xml:space="preserve">“ Valde quidem dolendum eſt quod re-
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            liqui tractatus Veterum Analytici, a Pappo memorati,
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            aut perierint, aut nondum lucem conſpexerint. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9" xml:space="preserve">Nam
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            minime dubito quin eorum nonnulli, Arabicè ſaltem
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            verſi, alicubi terrarum lateant, pulvere magis quam tene-
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            bris ſuis involuti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10" xml:space="preserve">” Dr. </s>
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              <emph style="sc">Halley’s</emph>
              <emph style="sc">Preface</emph>
            to his
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            -
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              <emph style="sc">LONIUS DE</emph>
              <emph style="sc">Sectione</emph>
              <emph style="sc">Rationis et</emph>
              <emph style="sc">Spatii</emph>
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              <emph style="sc">Some</emph>
            ingenious men have attempted, from the account of
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            them given by Pappus, to reſtore ſome of theſe loſt Trea-
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            tiſes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14" xml:space="preserve">Snellius has endeavoured to give us the Books
              <emph style="sc">De</emph>
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              <emph style="sc">Sectione</emph>
              <emph style="sc">Rationis</emph>
            ,
              <emph style="sc">De</emph>
              <emph style="sc">Sectione</emph>
              <emph style="sc">Spatii</emph>
            , and
              <emph style="sc">De</emph>
              <emph style="sc">Sec</emph>
            -
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              <emph style="sc">TIONE</emph>
              <emph style="sc">Determinata</emph>
            . </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s15" xml:space="preserve">Fermat and Schooten have laboured
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            in the Treatiſe
              <emph style="sc">De</emph>
              <emph style="sc">Locis</emph>
              <emph style="sc">Planis</emph>
            ; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16" xml:space="preserve">and Marinus Ghetaldus
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            in that
              <emph style="sc">De</emph>
              <emph style="sc">Inclinationibus</emph>
            . </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17" xml:space="preserve">But thoſe who have ſuc-
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            ceeded beſt, and done the moſt this way, are two </s>
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