Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6785

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                <emph style="bf">Commentary:</emph>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> The problem on this page is from Propositions 12 and 14 from
                <emph style="it">Effectionum geometricarum canonica recensio</emph>
                <ref id="Viete_1593b" target="http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/2684103"> (Viète 1593b, Props 12, </ref>
              . Harriot does not mention the
                <emph style="it">Effectionum</emph>
              explicitly here but the notation is essentially Viète's, except reduced to lower case letters. </s>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> Note Harriot's use of the
                <math>
                  <mstyle>
                    <mo>=</mo>
                  </mstyle>
                </math>
              symbol for what we now write as
                <math>
                  <mstyle>
                    <mo>±</mo>
                  </mstyle>
                </math>
              .
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              Note also that once he has arrived at an equation, he regards the problem as solved. The rest is merely 'mechanicen', or practical calculation.</s>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> Harriot's source for the method of Diophantus must have been the edition of Wilhelm
                <emph style="it">Diophanti Alexandrini rerum arithmeticarum libri sex</emph>
                <ref id="diophantus_1575"> (Diophantus </ref>
              . Mahomet was by now all that was remembered of the name of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. His name appears in this form in Bombelli's
                <emph style="it">Algebra</emph>
                <ref id="bombelli_1579"> (Bombelli 1572, </ref>
              , for example. </s>
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          <head xml:space="preserve" xml:lang="lat"> Data media trium proportionalium et differentia extremarum:
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          invenire
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          [
            <emph style="bf">Translation: </emph>
          Given the mean of three proportionals and thd difference of the extremes, find the ]</head>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Sit media data
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mi>d</mi>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
            . et differentia
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mi>b</mi>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
            .
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            Et ponatur unus terminus ignotus
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mi>a</mi>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
            .
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            Ergo alter erit
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mi>a</mi>
                  <mo>=</mo>
                  <mi>b</mi>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
            . hoc est
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            vel
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mi>a</mi>
                  <mo>-</mo>
                  <mi>b</mi>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
            vel
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mi>a</mi>
                  <mo>+</mo>
                  <mi>b</mi>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
            .
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            Ergo: Resolutio.
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            Ergo per Mechanicen.
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            Hoc est Minor.
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              <lb/>
            [
              <emph style="bf">Translation: </emph>
            Let the given mean be
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mi>d</mi>
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            and the difference
              <math>
                <mstyle>
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                </mstyle>
              </math>
            , and denote one of the unkonwn extrmes by
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mi>a</mi>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
            .
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            Therefore the other will be
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mi>a</mi>
                  <mo>±</mo>
                  <mi>b</mi>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
            , that is, either
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mi>a</mi>
                  <mo>-</mo>
                  <mi>b</mi>
                  <mn>4</mn>
                  <mi>o</mi>
                  <mi>r</mi>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
            a + b
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mo>.</mo>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
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            Hence the solution.
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            Therefore by calculation
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            That is, the lesser extreme
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            the ]</s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Et emitandas applicationes in fine mechanicas, melius est
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            ponere vel notare in principio, dimidium differentiæ
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mi>c</mi>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
            . tum differentia
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            tota erit
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mn>2</mn>
                  <mo>,</mo>
                  <mi>c</mi>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
            .
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            Ergo per resolutionem
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            solutio fit
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            Ergo per
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            [
              <emph style="bf">Translation: </emph>
            To force out the divisions in the final calculation, it is better to put or denote from the beginning half the difference
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mi>c</mi>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
            , then the total difference will be
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mn>2</mn>
                  <mi>c</mi>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
            . Hence from the solution, the equation will be.
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            Therefore by ]</s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Mechanicum secundum Diophantum
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            et Mahometen.
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            Adde utrique parte æquationis
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mi>c</mi>
                  <mi>c</mi>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
            .
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            […]
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            Et per
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            [
              <emph style="bf">Translation: </emph>
            Calculation according to Diohantus and Mahomet.
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            Add
              <math>
                <mstyle>
                  <mi>c</mi>
                  <mi>c</mi>
                </mstyle>
              </math>
            to each side of the equation.
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            And by ]</s>
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