Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6787

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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 13, entitled 'Angulus cornicularis'
                <ref id="Viete_1593d" target="http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/2684256"> (Viete 1593d, Chapter </ref>
              . There Viète gave six arguments about the angle between the tangent and circumference of a circle. Harriot has converted each of them into ratios, written in the lower half of the page in symbolic notation. </s>
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          <head xml:space="preserve"> Cornus. Vieta habet 6 sequentes
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          Horn angle. Viète has the 6 following ]</head>
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