Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6787

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                <emph style="bf">Commentary:</emph>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> The reference to Pappus is to Commandino's edition of Books III to
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              . The proposition on pages 320v–321 is Proposition 14. </s>
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                <s xml:space="preserve"> Problema X. Propositio XIV.
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                Facile autem est inuentis quibuscumque coniugationibus diametrorum ellipsis, axes cuius organice inuenire. quod quidem hac ratione fiet.</s>
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                <s xml:space="preserve"> Moreover, having found any conjugates of the diamters of the ellipse, it is easy to find the axes mechancially, which indeed are in this ratio.</s>
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          <head xml:space="preserve" xml:lang="lat"> pappus. 321
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          Datæ, coniugatæ elypseos
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          diametri
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          Quæruntur
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          Pappus, page 321.
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          Given conjugate ellipses with diameters
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          , there are sought the axes. </head>
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