PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Almagesti (tr. Erasmus Reinhold)

Wittenberg, Johannes Lufft, 1549 · 113v

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AB ad subtensam dupli BG, erit etiam data linea AE, et portio reliqua ZE, ideoque, cum et recta DZ sit data, dabitur et in rectangulo triangulo EDZ, angulus qui sub EDZ, et totus angulus qui sub ADB. Ergo et circumferentia AB dabitur, et reliqua BG. Quod demonstrandum erat.

Rursus Tertium lemmation κυκλικὸν i. m. W sit circulus ABG circa centrum D et in eius circumferentia sumantur tria signa A, B, G, sic ut utraque circumferentia AB et BG sit minor semicirculo, —quod simililiter erit intelligendum, si deinceps sumantur circumferentiae—, et coniunctae rectae DA et GB producantur, et concurrant in signo E. Dico quod est subtensa dupli circumferentiae AG ad subtensam dupli circumferentiae AB, sicut recta GE ad rectam BE. Nam, quemadmodum in priori lemmate, si a signis B et G demittamus in rectam DA perpediculares BZ et GI,