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              <s xml:space="preserve"> Drawing a regular heptagon inside a circle is the subject of Chapter VII of
                <emph style="it">Variorum responsorum liber VII</emph>
                <ref id="Viete_1593d" target="http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/2684229"> (Viete 1593d, Chapter </ref>
              . Harriot knew this book well but there is no reference to Viete on this page. </s>
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          <head xml:space="preserve" xml:lang="lat"> a.) pro latere Heptagoni
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          For the sides of a heptagon, and the ]</head>
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