Castelli, Benedetto, Of the mensuration of running waters, 1661

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              <s>PROPOSITION V.</s>
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              If a River diſcharge a certain quantitie of Water
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              in a certain time; and after that there come into it
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              a Flood, the quantity of Water which is diſchar­
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              ged in as much time at the Flood, is to that which
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              was diſcharged before, whilſt the River was low,
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              in a proportion compounded of the proportions of
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              the velocity of the Flood, to the velocity of the first
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              Water, and of the height of the Flood, to the
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              height of the first Water.
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              <s>Suppoſe a River, which whilſt it is low, runs by the Section
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              AF; and after a Flood cometh into the ſame, and runneth
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              through the Section D F, I ſay, that the quantity of the Wa­
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              ter which is diſcharged through D F, is to that which is diſcharged
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              through A F, in a proportion compounded of the proportions of
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              the velocity through D F, to the velocity through A F, and of
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              the height D
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              B,
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              to the height A
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              B
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              ; As the velocity through DF
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              is to the velocity through A F, ſo let the line R, to the line S;
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              and as the height D
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              B
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              is to the height A
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              B,
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              ſo let the line S, to
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              the line T; and let us ſuppoſe a Section L M N, equal to D F
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              in height and breadth; that is L M equal to D
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              B,
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              and M N equal
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              to
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              B F
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              ; but let it be in velocity equal to the Section A F, there­
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              fore the quantity of Water which runneth through D F, ſhall be
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              to that which runneth through LN, as the velocity through DF,
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              is to the velocity through L N, that is, to the velocity through
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              A F
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              ; and the line R being to the line S, as the velocity through
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              D
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              F,
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              to the velocity through
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              A F
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              ; therefore the quantity which
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              runneth through D
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              F,
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              to that which runneth through L N, ſhall
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              have the proportion of R to S; but the quantity which runneth
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              through L N, to that which runneth through
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              A F,
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