Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6784

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[Commentary:
The references on this page are to Commandino's edition of Mathematicae collectiones (Pappus , Book 7, Proposition 122, page 235, and to Giambattista Benedetti, Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum et physicarum liber (Benedetti 1585, . Proposition 122 from Pappus is as follows.
Theorema CXI. Propositio CXXII.
Sit triangulum ABC, & ducatur quædam recta linea AD, quem ipsam BC bisariam secet. Dico quadrata ex BA AC quadratorum ex AD DC dupla esse.

Let there be a triangle ABC and there is drawn a straight line AD, which bisects BC. I say that the squares of BA and AC are twice the squares of AD and AC. Harriot's triangles are lettered abd with the point b bisecting cd.
The working is continued on the reverse of the folio, Add MS f. . ]
sit triangulum acd
[Translation: let there be a triangle acd

dico
[Translation: I say ]
sit ae perpendicularis ad, cd
[Translation: let ae be perpendicular to ad
Unde
[Translation: whence it ]
Vide, Pappum. lib. 7. prop: 122. pag. 235.
et: Jo: Baptistum Benedictum pag.
[Translation: See Pappus, Book 7, Proposition 122, page 235; and Johan Baptista Benedictus, page ]

[Translation: turn ]
[Commentary: The working is continued on the reverse of the folio, Add MS f. .

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