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                <emph style="bf">Commentary:</emph>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> Harriot refers to Euclid,
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                If in a right-angle triangle a perpendicular be drawn from the right angle to the base, the triangles adjoining the perpendicular are similar both to the whole and to one another. </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Of 3 magnitudes in continuall proportion:
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            There differences being known: to
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            the </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> For sake of understanding, suppose it first don.
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            the first proportionall,
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            the
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            second &
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            the third. The difference betwixt the first & second
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            ; betwixt
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            the second & third
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            . The difference of differences that is betwixt
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            &
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            ,
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> The construction of the problem </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> let the first difference be
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            : the second
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            , the difference of those differences
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            from the poynt
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            rayse a perpendicular
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            . In it let
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            be æquall to
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            . make
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            æquall to
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            . from
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            to
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            draw a right line. Make
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            , a rectangle.
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            & produce
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            till it meet with
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            . by the 8th of the 6th it is a meane
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            proportionall betwixt
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            &
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            . Therefour
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            is the first proportionall sought
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            must therefour be the second or
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            . &
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            the third. as is manifest
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            by the corollaries in the paper </s>
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