Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667

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              <s>
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              and I will give you an anſwer. </s>
              <s>Tell me therefore, how much do
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              you think ſufficeth to make that motion ſwifter than this?</s>
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              <s>SIMP. </s>
              <s>I will ſay for example, that if that motion by the
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              gent were a million of times ſwifter than this by the ſecant, the
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              pen, yea, and the ſtone alſo would come to be extruded.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>You ſay ſo, and ſay that which is falſe, onely for
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              want, not of Logick, Phyſicks, or Metaphyſicks, but of
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              try; for if you did but underſtand its firſt elements, you would
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              know, that from the centre of a circle a right line may be drawn
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              to meet the tangent, which interſecteth it in ſuch a manner, that
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              the part of the tangent between the contact and the ſecant, may
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              be one, two, or three millions of times greater than that part of
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              the ſecant which lieth between the tangent and the circumference,
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              and that the neerer and neerer the ſecant ſhall be to the contact,
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              this proportion ſhall grow greater and greater
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              in infinitum
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              ; ſo
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              that it need not be feared, though the
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              vertigo
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              be ſwift, and the
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              motion downwards ſlow, that the pen or other lighter matter can
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              begin to riſe upwards, for that the inclination downwards always
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              exceedeth the velocity of the projection.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I do not perfectly apprehend this buſineſſe.</s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>I will give you a moſt univerſal yet very eaſie demon­</s>
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              <s>
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              ſtration thereof. </s>
              <s>Let a proportion be given between B A [
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              in Fig.
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              3.] and C: And let B A be greater than C at pleaſure. </s>
              <s>And let
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              there be deſcribed a circle, whoſe centre is D. </s>
              <s>From which it is
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              required to draw a ſecant, in ſuch manner, that the tangent may
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              be in proportion to the ſaid ſecant, as B A to C. </s>
              <s>Let A I be
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              ſuppoſed a third proportional to B A and C. </s>
              <s>And as B I is to
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              I A, ſo let the diameter F E be to E G; and from the point G,
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              let there be drawn the tangent G H. </s>
              <s>I ſay that all this is done as
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              was required; and as B A is to C, ſo is H G to G E. </s>
              <s>And in
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              gard that as B I is to I A, ſo is F E to E G; therefore by
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              ſition, as B A is to A I; ſo ſhall F G be to G E. </s>
              <s>And becauſe C
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              is the middle proportion between
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              B
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              A and A I; and G H is a
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              middle term between F G and G E; therefore, as B A is to C,
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              ſo ſhall F G be to G H; that is H G to G E, which was to be
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              demonſtrated.</s>
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              A geometrical
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              demonſtration to
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              prove the
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              bility of extruſion
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              by means of the
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              terreſtrial
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              vertigo.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>I apprehend this demonſtration; yet nevertheleſſe, I
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              am not left wholly without hæſitation; for I find certain
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              ſed ſcruples role to and again in my mind, which like thick and
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              dark clouds, permit me not to diſcern the cleerneſſe and neceſſity
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              of the concluſion with that perſpicuity, which is uſual in
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              matical Demonſtrations. </s>
              <s>And that which I ſtick at is this. </s>
              <s>It is
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              true that the ſpaces between the tangent and the circumference do
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              gradually diminiſh
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              in infinitum
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              towards the contact; but it is alſo
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              true on the contrary, that the propenſion of the moveable to </s>
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