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

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              <s>
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              remaining Figure I S L A. </s>
              <s>Becauſe now that N O is
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              Seſquialter
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              of R O, but leſs than
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              Seſquialter ejus quæ uſque ad Axem
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              (or of its
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              Semi-parameter
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              ;) ^{*} R O ſhall be leſſe than
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              quæ uſque ad Axem
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              (or
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              than the
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              Semi-parameter
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              ;) ^{*} whereupon the Angle R P
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              ſhall be
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              acute. </s>
              <s>For ſince the Line
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              quæ uſque ad Axem
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              (or
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              Semi-parameter
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              )
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              is greater than R O, that Line which is drawn from the Point R,
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              and perpendicular to K
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              namely RT, meeteth with the line F P
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              without the Section, and for that cauſe muſt of neceſſity fall be­
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              tween the Points
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              P
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              and
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              Therefore if
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              L
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              ines be drawn through
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              B and G, parallel unto R T, they ſhall contain Right Angles with
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              the Surface of the Liquid: ^{*} and the part that is within the Li­
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              quid ſhall move upwards according to the Perpendicular that is
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              drawn thorow B, parallel to R T, and the part that is above the Li­
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              quid ſhall move downwards according to that which is drawn tho­
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              row G; and the Solid A P O L ſhall not abide in this Poſition; for
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              that the parts towards A will move upwards, and thoſe towards
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              B downwards; Wherefore N O ſhall be conſtituted according to
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              the Perpendicular.]</s>
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              *
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              Supplied by
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              Fe­
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              derico Comman­
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              dino.</s>
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            <p type="margin">
              <s>
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              B</s>
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            <p type="margin">
              <s>
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              C</s>
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            <p type="margin">
              <s>
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              D</s>
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            <p type="margin">
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              E</s>
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            <p type="margin">
              <s>
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              F</s>
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            <p type="margin">
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              G</s>
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              <s>COMMANDINE.</s>
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              The Demonſtration of this propoſition hath been much deſired; which we have (in like man­
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              ner as the 8 Prop. </s>
              <s>of the firſt Book) reſtored according to
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              Archimedes
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              his own Schemes, and
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              illustrated it with Commentaries.
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              <s>The Right Portion of a Rightangled Conoid, when it ſhall
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              have its Axis leſſe than
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              Seſquialter ejus quæ uſque ad Axem
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              (or of
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              its
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              Semi-parameter] In the Tranſlation of
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              Nicolo Tartaglia
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              it is falſlyread
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              great­
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              er then Seſquialter,
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              and ſo its rendered in the following Propoſition; but it is the Right
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              Portion of a Concid cut by a Plane at Right Angles, or erect, unto the Axis: and we ſay
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              that Conoids are then conſtituted erect when the cutting Plane, that is to ſay, the Plane of the
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              Baſe, ſhall be parallel to the Surface of the Liquid.
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            <p type="margin">
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              A</s>
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              <s>Which ſhall be the Diameter of the Section I P O S, and the
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              Axis of the Portion demerged in the Liquid.]
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              By the 46 of the firſt of
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              the Conicks of
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              Apollonious,
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              or by the Corol­
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              lary of the 51 of the ſame.
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            <p type="margin">
              <s>
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              B</s>
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              <s>And of the Solid Magnitude A P
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              O L, let the Centre of Gravity be R;
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              and of I P O S let the Centre be B.]
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              For the Centre of Gravity of the Portion of a Right­
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              angled Conoid is in its Axis, which it ſo divideth
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              as that the part thereof terminating in the vertex,
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              be double to the other part terminating in the Baſe; as
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              in our Book
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              De Centro Gravitatis Solidorum Propo. </s>
              <s>29.
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              we have demonſtrated. </s>
              <s>And
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              ſince the Centre of Gravity of the Portion A P O L is R, O R ſhall be double to RN and there­
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              fore N O ſhall be Seſquialter of O R. </s>
              <s>And for the ſame reaſon, B the Centre of Gravity of the Por­
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              tion I P O S is in the Axis P F, ſo dividing it as that P B is double to B F;
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            <p type="margin">
              <s>
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              C</s>
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              <s>And draw a Line from B to R prolonged unto G; which let
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              be the Centre of Gravity of the remaining Eigure I S L A.] </s>
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