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                <emph style="bf">Commentary:</emph>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> The reference on this page is to
                <emph style="it">Variorum responsorum liber VIII</emph>
              , Chapter XVIII, Proposition 2
                <ref id="Viete_1593d" target="http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/2684269"> (Viete 1593d, Chapter 18, Prop </ref>
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                <s xml:space="preserve"> Propositio II.
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                Si eidem circulo inscribantur polygona ordinata in & numerus laterum primi fit ad numerum laterum secundi subduplus, ad numerum vero laterum tertii subquadruplus, quarti suboctuplus, quinti subdexdecuplus,& ea deinceps continua ratione subdupla. </s>
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                <s xml:space="preserve"> If in the same circle there are inscribed polygons ordered indefinitely, and the number of sides of the first is half the number of sides of the second, and a quarter the number of sides of the third, and an eighth of the fourth, and a sixteenth of the fifth, and so on continually halving. ...</s>
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              <s xml:space="preserve"> There are also references to Euclid's
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                Equal parallograms which have an angle in each equal, have the sides about the equal angles reciprocally proportional. </s>
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                In equal parallelepipedal solids the bases are reciprocally proportional to the heights; and those parallelepipedal solids in which the bases are reciporcally proportional to the heights are equal. </s>
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          <head xml:space="preserve" xml:lang="lat"> Responsorum. pag. 30 prop. 2.
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          Responsorum, page 30, Proposition ]</head>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Apotome lateris
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            Diameter circuli
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            polygon
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              <emph style="bf">Translation: </emph>
            Apotome of the side
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            Diameter of the circle
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            the polygon ]</s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Est igitur per 14.p.6.l. vel
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            Therefore by Elements VI.14 or ]</s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Est igitur per
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            Therefore by Elements ]</s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Est sic de
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            And so on for the ]</s>
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