Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6782

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                <emph style="bf">Commentary:</emph>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> This page refers to Aristotle's
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              , Books V and VI, where Aristotle defines what it means for things to be together or apart, in contact, or continuous. The definitions may be paraphrased as follows: </s>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> Things are said to be together if they are in one place, apart if they are in different places.
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              Things are said to be in contact if their extremities are together.
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              Things are said to be continuous if the touching limits of each become one and the </s>
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          <head xml:space="preserve" xml:lang="lat"> De infinitis. De
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            <emph style="bf">Translation: </emph>
          On infinity. On the ]</head>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Aristotle in the beginning of his 6th booke of his physicks, & in the
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            26th treatise of the 5th booke, defineth those thinges to be
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              quorum extrema sunt unum.</foreign>
            And in the 22nd treatise of the said 5th booke
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            that:
              <foreign xml:lang="lat">tangentia sunt, quorum extrema sunt simul</foreign>
              <foreign xml:lang="lat">Simul qua in
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              uno loco sunt primo</foreign>
            .
              <foreign xml:lang="lat">Separatim qui sunt in altero.</foreign>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Now for the
              <emph style="st">understanding</emph>
              <emph style="super">better explication</emph>
            of
              <emph style="super">meaning of the</emph>
            definitions as also of their truth. Let us
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            understand first two
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            cubes A & B to be separate, that is, to be in diverse
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            planes, extremes & </s>
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