Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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and I will give you an anſwer. </
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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.</
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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.</
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ſtration thereof. </
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in Fig.
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3.] and C: And let B A be greater than C at pleaſure. </
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there be deſcribed a circle, whoſe centre is D. </
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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. </
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ſuppoſed a third proportional to B A and C. </
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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. </
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was required; and as B A is to C, ſo is H G to G E. </
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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. </
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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.</
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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.</
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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. </
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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 </
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