Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6785

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            <s xml:space="preserve"> In continuall proportions there is understood a
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            first terme & second whatsoever </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> If the first terme be a poynt & the second a line the third
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            is a square
              <emph style="super">or an infnitie forme æquall</emph>
            & as </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> The next
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            forme is a line
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            of cubes as the
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            line is to the poynt
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            which is a determi-
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            nate </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Whereas Euclide & all that follow him in his 10th booke [???] of a posita
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            linea to compare other lines unto it
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            to find & iudge whether they be rationall
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            or no. that posita is no quantity except it hath other explicite or implicite
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            a respect unto some other, then that
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            I would find or iudge to be rationall
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            or </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> For them to be </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> The posita linea hath either an other line understood to be referred unto, or a poynt
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            which is his negation yet positively understoode. So every negation is positive
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            in understanding & not become but by comparison of an other positive </s>
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