Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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of reſt, are alwayes determinate, and anſwer in proportion to the
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parallels comprehended between two right lines that concur in
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an angle, like to the angle B A E, or B A D, or any other
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infinitely more acute, alwayes provided it be
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But the diminution of the ſpaces thorow which the moveable is
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to be conducted along the circumference of the wheel, is
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tionate to another kind of diminution, comprehended between
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lines that contain an angle infinitely more narrow and acute, than
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any rectilineal angle, how acute ſoever, which is that in our
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making it the centre, deſcribe at the diſtance C A, an arch A M P,
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the which ſhall interſect the parallels that determine the degrees of
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velocity, though they be very minute, and comprehended within
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a moſt acute rectilineal angle; of which parallels the parts that
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lie between the arch and the tangent A B, are the quantities of
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the ſpaces, and of the returns upon the wheel, alwayes leſſer (and
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with greater proportion leſſer, by how much neerer they approach
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to the contact) than the ſaid parallels of which they are parts.
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wards the angle diminiſh alwayes at the ſame rate, as
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A H
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ing divided in two equal parts in F, the parallel H I ſhall be
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ble to F G, and ſub-dividing F A, in two equal parts, the
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lel produced from the point of the diviſion ſhall be the half of
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F G; and continuing the ſub-diviſion
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in infinitum,
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the ſubſequent
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parallels ſhall be alwayes half of the next preceding; but it doth
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not ſo fall out in the lines intercepted between the tangent and
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the circumference of the circle: For if the ſame ſub-diviſion be
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made in F A; and ſuppoſing for example, that the parallel which
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cometh from the point H, were double unto that which commeth
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from F, this ſhall be more then double to the next following, and
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continually the neerer we come towards the contact A, we ſhall
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find the precedent lines contein the next following three, four,
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ten, an hundred, a thouſand, an hundred thouſand, an hundred
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millions of times, and more
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in infinitum.
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The brevity therefore of
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ſuch lines is ſo reduced, that it far exceeds what is requiſite to make
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the project, though never ſo light, return, nay more, continue
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unremoveable upon the circumference.</
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what it layeth all its ſtreſſe, yet nevertheleſſe methinks that he
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that would take pains to purſue it, might yet ſtart ſome further
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queſtions, by ſaying, that of thoſe two cauſes which render the
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deſcent of the moveable ſlower and ſlower
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in infinitum,
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it is
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feſt, that that which dependeth on the vicinity to the firſt term of
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the deſcent, increaſeth alwayes in the ſame proportion, like as the
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parallels alwayes retain the ſame proportion to each other, &c. </
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