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                <emph style="bf">Commentary:</emph>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> On this page, Harriot examines Problem IX from
                <emph style="it">Apollonius Gallus</emph>
                <ref id="Viete_1600a" target="http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/2684205"> (Viete 1600a, Prob </ref>
              . </s>
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                <s xml:space="preserve"> Problema IX.
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                Datis duobus circulis, & puncto, per datum punctum circulum describere quem duo dati circuli contingat.</s>
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                <s xml:space="preserve"> IX. Given two circles and a point, through the given point describe a circle that touches the two given </s>
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          <head xml:space="preserve" xml:lang="lat"> Appoll. Gall. problema. 9.
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          Casus.
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          [
            <emph style="bf">Translation: </emph>
          Apollonius Gallus, Problem IX, case ]</head>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> In isto casu:
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            Si punctum datum
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            sit extra
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            circulum circa
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            , et intra
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            tangentes ad partes
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            :
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            vel extra eundem circulum et
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            intra tangentes ad partes
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            .
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            .
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            Duo circuli possunt
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            tangere duos
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              <emph style="bf">Translation: </emph>
            In this case, if the point
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            is outside the circle around
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            , and inside the tangents on the side of
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            , or outside the same circle and inside the tangents on the sides of
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            and
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            , then two circles can touch the two given. </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Punctum non dabiter in circulis
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            et
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            , neque in spatio intra
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            illos circulos vidilicet
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            et intra tangentes.
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            Alias utercunque: et unus tantum
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            circulus tangens describitur nisi in
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            locis supra
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              <emph style="bf">Translation: </emph>
            The point will not be given in the circles
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            and
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            , nor in the space inside those circles, namely
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            , and inside the tangents. Any other way, and one such tangent circle will be described unless in the places delineated above. </s>
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