Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6784

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              <s xml:space="preserve"> The problem pursued in this and many other folios in Add MS 6784 is Apollonius's problem of 'inclination' or 'neusis', as set out in Pappus,
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                <ref id="pappus_1588"> (Pappus </ref>
              , Book 7. On this page Harriot refers to Marino Ghetaldi's
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              . For a statement of the problem see Add MS 6784
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          <head xml:space="preserve" xml:lang="lat"> De inclinationibus. In
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