Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6785

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                <emph style="bf">Commentary:</emph>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> The reference on this page is to Stevin's
                <emph style="it">L'arithmétique ... aussi l'algebre</emph>
                <ref id="stevin_1585a"> (Stevin </ref>
              , page 289. </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> The Theorem of this proposition </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> If the summe of the second & third be double: & unto that double
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            added the half of the first magnitude: & betwixt that aggregate
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            & half of the first magnitude be gotten a meane proportionall:
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            & from that meane proportionall be taken the sayd half of the
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            first magnitude: The remayne is the second </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> The theorem is found by resolving of an æquation
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            which was the second sorte in Stevin pag. 289; & then after by composition
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            I made the problem above on the other </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> The worke to bring it to an æquation is this.
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            Let the second be
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            . then the third must be
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                  <mn>5</mn>
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                  <mn>1</mn>
                  <mi>a</mi>
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            .
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> per species
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            it is done
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            in the next
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> So that if it be considered the absolutes wilbe always the
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              <emph style="super">the oblong made of</emph>
            the summe of the second &
              <emph style="super">and the first magnitude:</emph>
            & the nomber of roots wilbe always so many
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            as therebe unites in the </s>
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