Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6789

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            Harriot, when you were last in tonne you gave me thes two
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            followinge </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> which have assisted mee powerfullie in all Cubicke æquations, both to know
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            how manie and what the rootes </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> evre sine I left you, I have bine puslelinge to resolve that biqua-
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            drate æquation of the intercepted line I was in hand withall at Sion
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            wich drawe mee into the speculation of all biquadrate æquations, whence I
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            have spent all my time all my paper and all my witt and in
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            vaine.
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            for
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> doe but send mee some shorte instructions (such as above which you
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            gave me once for Cubicks) to signifie unto mee what comparisons
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            ther are betweene the partes of biquadrate æquations, when the
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            rootes are one, two, three, or four, æquall or unæquall. and then
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            leave mee to pusle anon. if you helpe mee not my three
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            months speculation, will perish </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> your sure friend Willm </s>
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