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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[71.] DETERMINATE SECTION. BOOK I. PROBLEM I. (Fig. 1.)
[72.] PROBLEM II. (Fig. 2 and 3.)
[73.] PROBLEM III. (Fig. 4. and 5.)
[74.] PROBLEM IV. (Fig. 6. 7. and 8.)
[75.] PROBLEM V. (Fig. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.)
[76.] PROBLEM VI. (Fig. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26.)
[77.] THE END OF BOOK I.
[78.] DETERMINATE SECTION. BOOK II. LEMMA I.
[79.] LEMMA II.
[80.] LEMMA III.
[81.] LEMMA IV.
[82.] LEMMA V.
[83.] PROBLEM VII. (Fig. 32, 33, 34, &c.)
[84.] PROBLEM I. (Fig. 32 to 45.)
[85.] PROBLEM II. (Fig. 46 to 57.)
[86.] PROBLEM III.
[87.] THE END.
[88.] A SYNOPSIS OF ALL THE DATA FOR THE Conſtruction of Triangles, FROM WHICH GEOMETRICAL SOLUTIONS Have hitherto been in Print.
[89.] By JOHN LAWSON, B. D. Rector of Swanscombe, in KENT. ROCHESTER:
[90.] MDCCLXXIII. [Price One Shilling.]
[91.] ADVERTISEMENT.
[92.] AN EXPLANATION OF THE SYMBOLS made uſe of in this SYNOPSIS.
[93.] INDEX OF THE Authors refered to in the SYNOPSIS.
[94.] Lately was publiſhed by the ſame Author; [Price Six Shillings in Boards.]
[95.] SYNOPSIS.
[96.] Continuation of the Synopsis, Containing ſuch Data as cannot readily be expreſſed by the Symbols before uſed without more words at length.
[97.] SYNOPSIS
[98.] FINIS.
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            The Limitations of the two former are ſaid by
              <emph style="sc">Pappus</emph>
            to have
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            been minimums, and that of the third a maximum, in conformity,
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            to which, I have here made them ſo; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1025" xml:space="preserve">although I cannot ſee with
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            what propriety: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1026" xml:space="preserve">each of them admitting, in ſome Caſes, of a maxi-
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            mum and in others of minimum, as I have intimated in a ſcbolium at
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            the end of each Problem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1027" xml:space="preserve">But notwithſtanding I have conformed to
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            the manner of
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            in dividing this Problem into three,
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            which it muſt be confeſſed contributes much to order in enumera-
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            ting ſuch a multitude of Caſes, yet have I previouſly ſhewn how
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            the whole may be generally conſtructed at once; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1028" xml:space="preserve">and that by a me-
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            thod, which I flatter myſelf will not be found inferior to any that
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            hath heretofore been given of this very intricate and general
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            Problem.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1030" xml:space="preserve">Such are the things that I have attempted, and ſuch the reaſons
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            for what I have done in the following little Tract. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1031" xml:space="preserve">The merit due
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            to each of them I chearfully ſubmit (where every one ought) to
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            the deciſion of the impartial Reader. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1032" xml:space="preserve">In the Conſtructions, my
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            chief Aim was novelty and uniformity: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1033" xml:space="preserve">I could have given more
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            ſimple conſtructions to one or two of them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1034" xml:space="preserve">in particular the ſixth
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            of Book I: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1035" xml:space="preserve">but it was not my intention to give any thing that I
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            knew had been done before. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1036" xml:space="preserve">I know of many imperfections, but
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            no falſe reaſonings, and hope none will be found; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1037" xml:space="preserve">but if there
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            ſhould, I hope the candid Geometer will be more inclined to ex-
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            cuſe than exult, when I aſſure him the greateſt part of the work
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            has been executed at different times, amidſt the hurry and perplexi-
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            ties which it may eaſily be conceived attend the fitting out for a
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            three years Voyage to the ſouth ſeas.</s>
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