PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Almagesti (tr. Erasmus Reinhold)

Wittenberg, Johannes Lufft, 1549 · 77v

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niam angulus sub ABE aequalis est angulo sub DBG, est autem et angulus BAE aequalis angulo sub BDG, ergo triangula ABE et BGD sunt aequiangula. Quare proportionaliter se habent, sicut BA ad AE, ita BD ad DG. Ergo rectangulum sub BA, DG aequale est rectangulo sub BD, AE. Demonstratum est autem et rectangulum sub BG, AD aequale esse rectangulo sub BD, GE. Totum igitur rectangulum sub AG, BD aequale est utrisque simul sumptis quae continentur sub AB, DG et sub AD, BG Quod erat demonstrandum.

Hoc ita exposito, Alterum theorema τὸ καθʼ ὑπεροχὴν i. m. W sit semicirculus ABGD super diametrum AD, et ab A producantur duae rectae AB et AG, et sit utraque data magnitudine, qualium diameter est data 120, et connectatur recta BG. Dico quod et ipsa detur. Connectantur enim rectae BD et GD, quas videlicet datas esse necesse est, quia sunt subtensae residuarum cir-