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              <s>THEOR. III. PROP. III.</s>
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              <s>The Times in which the ſame Space is paſt tho­
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              row by unequal Velocities, have the ſame pro­
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              portion to each other as their Velocities contra­
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              rily taken.</s>
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              Let the two unequal Velocities be A the greater, and B the leſſe:
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              and according to both theſe let a Motion be made thorow the ſame
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              Space C D. </s>
              <s>I ſay the Time in which the Velocity A paſſeth the
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              Space C D, ſhall be to the Time in which the Velocity B paſſeth the
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              ſaid Space, as the Velocity B to the Velocity A. </s>
              <s>As A is to B, ſo let
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              C D be to C E: Then, by the
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              former Propoſition, the Time in
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              which the Velocity A paſſeth
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              C D, ſhall be the ſame with
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              the Time in which B paſſeth
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              C E. </s>
              <s>But the Time in which
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              the Velocity B paſſeth C E, is
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              to the Time in which it paſſeth C D, as C E is to C D: Therefore
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              the Time in which the Velocity A paſſeth C D, is to the Time in which
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              the Velocity B paſſeth the ſame C D, as C E is to C D; that is, the Ve­
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              locity B is to the Velocity A: Which was to be proved.
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              <s>THEOR. IV. PROP. IV.</s>
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              <s>If two Moveables move with an Equable Mo­
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              tion, but with unequal Velocities, the Spaces
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              which they paſſe in unequal Times, are to each
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              other in a proportion compounded of the pro­
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              portion of the Velocities, and of the propor­
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              tion of the Times.</s>
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              Let the two Moveables moving with an Equable Motion, be E and
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              F: And let the proportion of the Velocity of the Moveable E be
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              to the Velocity of the Moveable F, as A is to B: And let the Time
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              in which E is moved, be unto the Time in which F is moved, as C is
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              to D. </s>
              <s>I ſay the Space paſſed by E, with the Velocity A in the Time C, is to
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              the Space paſſed by F, with the Velocity B in the Time D, in a proportion
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              compounded of the proportion of the Velocity A to the Velocity B, and of
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              </s>
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