Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6787

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601 (301v)
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602 (302)
603
603 (302v)
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604 (303)
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605 (303v)
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606 (304)
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607 (304v)
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608 (305)
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609 (305v)
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610 (306)
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> The inclusion of a page number confirms that Harriot was using Commandino's edition of
                <emph style="it">Apollonii Pergaei conicorum libri quattuor</emph>
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              . Proposition 30 is a property of the ellipse. </s>
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                <s xml:space="preserve"> I.30 If in an ellipse or in opposite sections a straight line is drawn in both directions from the centre, meeting the section, it will be bisected at the </s>
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          <head xml:space="preserve" xml:lang="lat"> Appol. 22.b.
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          lib. 1. pro.
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          Apollonius, page 22v, Book I, Proposition ]</head>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> In
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            In an ]</s>
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