Viviani, Vincenzo, De maximis et minimis, geometrica divinatio : in qvintvm Conicorvm Apollonii Pergaei

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head6" xml:space="preserve">IN DIVINATIONEM GEOMETRICAM
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          DE MAXIMIS, ET MINIMIS
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          PRÆFATIO.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s26" xml:space="preserve">NEMO omnium neſcit, quieruditionis aliquid deguſta-
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            rint, ac geometricis potiſſimùm ſtudijs animum inten-
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            derint, meditationes Conicas, tum antiquiſſimas eſſe,
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            tum ab APOLLONIO Pergæo (qui ad annos fermè
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            nongentos nunc ſupra mille ſub Ptolomeo Euergete
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            floruit) omnia ea vſquequaque fuiſſe collecta, quæ ſparſim antea in
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            eo genere commentati fuerant Ariſteas Geometra, Eudoxus Cnidius,
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            Menæchmus, Euclides, Conon, Traſideus, Nicoteles, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s27" xml:space="preserve">quod ali-
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            qui tradunt Archimedes etiam, ac Doſitheus, multique alijvetuſtio-
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            res, quorum nomina cum ſcriptis periere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s28" xml:space="preserve">Hos inter APOLLO-
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            NIVS, vtiliſſimam hanc, admirabilemque doctrinam egregiè illu-
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            ſtrauit, ampliauitque octo libris comprehenſam, vt ipſe ad Eudemum
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            præfatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s29" xml:space="preserve">Id autem tam ſelici ſupra cæteros excellentia perfecit, iure
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            vt ab omnibus ſui æui Mathematicis MAGNVS GEOMETRA au-
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            dierit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s31" xml:space="preserve">Neque illud nos fugit, ad vſque Pappi Alexandrini tempora, hos
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            octo libros perueniſſe, qui neceſſaria nobis Lemmata ad eorum no-
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            tionem conſtruxit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s32" xml:space="preserve">Eutocius quoq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s33" xml:space="preserve">Aſcalonites Pappo iunior, pręter
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            commentaria in quatuor APOLLONII priores, reliquas curas in toti-
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            dem reliquos Anthemo promittit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s34" xml:space="preserve">Cæterùm ex quo Eutocius floruit,
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            annos, vt aliqui tradunt, à condita ſaluta circiter CCCCLXXX.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s35" xml:space="preserve">integram librorum familiam fuiſſe viſam nemo prodidit, ſed quatuor
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            poſterioribus inuidioſa vetuſtate diuulſis, priores tantùm meliori con-
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            cordia ſuperfuiſſe creditum hactenus.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s37" xml:space="preserve">Hanc ego notitiam tacitus intra me condidi, atque iam tum, </s>
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