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                <emph style="bf">Commentary:</emph>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> The page is part of Harriot’s
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              , a group of folios on which Harriot eventually succeeds in deriving, by means of such diagrams, a general expression for the time of flight of a projectile
                <ref id="Schemmel_2008">(Schemmel 2008, Section 8.2)</ref>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> The problem of finding the time of flight of a projectile formulated on the upper part of
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              is adequately reformulated in terms of a compound diagram of motion. The result is noted as an equation as well as a proportion. </s>
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          <head xml:space="preserve"> 5.) For oblique motions. </head>
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