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 are to Lansberg,
                <emph style="it">Triangulorum geometriae libri quatuor</emph>
              (1591) and Rheticus
                <emph style="it">Opus palatinum de triangulis</emph>
                <ref id="rheticus_1596"> (Rheticus 1596) </ref>
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          <head xml:space="preserve"> To find the summe of all
            <emph style="super">the sines</emph>
          of minutes in
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          a quarter of a </head>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Nostra methodus. Vietæ
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            [
              <emph style="bf">Translation: </emph>
            My method. Viète's ]</s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> The half the summe of
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            the sines being. 4. the whole sine being </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> The secant and tangent of 89.59 is æquall to the secant of 89.59.30. see Lansberg's de triangulis pag. 11. and therefore both
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            the values by demonstration are all one. But the numbers disagreeing do argue that the secant & tangent
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            are not truly calculated in Rheticus his tables out of which those are </s>
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