Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6784

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                <emph style="bf">Commentary:</emph>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> The problem pursued in this and many other folios in Add MS 6784 is 'the cutting-off of a ratio', as set out in Pappus,
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              , Book 7. For a statement of the problem see Add MS 6784
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          <head xml:space="preserve" xml:lang="lat"> De sectione
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          On the cutting off of a ]</head>
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