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The reference on this page is to Petrus Ramus (Pierre de la
<emph style="it">Scholarum mathematicarum libri unus et triginta</emph>
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. (The same diagram appears in the 1599 edition, but there on page 314.) On pages 319–320 (the last two pages of the 1569 edition) Ramus states and proves what is usually known as Heron's Rule, for the area of a triangle given all three of its sides