Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              <s>AN
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              APPENDIX,
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              In which is contained certain
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              THE OREMS and their DEMONSTRATIONS:
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              Formerly written by the ſame Author, touching the
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              CENTER
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              of
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              GRAVITY,
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              of
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              SOLIDS.</s>
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              <s>POSTVLATVM.</s>
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              We preſuppoſe equall Weights to be alike diſpo­
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              ſed in ſever all Ballances, if the Center of Gra­
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              vity of ſome of thoſe Compounds ſhall divide the Ballance
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              according to ſome proportion, and the Ballance ſhall
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              alſo divide their Center of Gravity according to the
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              ſame proportion.
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              <s>LEMMA.</s>
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              Let the line A B be cut in two equall parts in C,
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              whoſe half A C let be divided in E, ſo that as B E is to
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              E A, ſo may A E be to E C. </s>
              <s>I ſay that B E is double
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              to E A. </s>
              <s>For as B E is to E
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              A, ſo is E A to E C: there­
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              fore by Compoſition and by Permutation of Proportion, as
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              B A is to A C, ſo is A E to E C: But as A E is to E C,
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              that is, B A to A C, ſo is B E to E A: Wherefore B
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              E is double to E A.
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              This ſuppoſed, we will Demonſtrate, That,
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