PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Almagesti (tr. Erasmus Reinhold)

Wittenberg, Johannes Lufft, 1549 · 78v

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ac mutilum esse, atque ita legendum vel similiter, ἄλλας τέ οὐκ ὀλίγας ἐυθείας ἐγγράψομεν τὰς ὑπὸ τὰς τὴν δύο κατʼ ἀυτὰς δεδομένων περιφερεῶν ὑπεροχας καὶ δὴ etc. Quanquam enim Theonis commentarius ita recitat locum Ptolemaei, ut multas dictiones omittat, videlicet hoc modo, ἐγγράψομεν καὶ δὴ, omissis omnibus mediis, quas modo posimus, tamen ipse exponens haec mox subiicit, φανερὸν δὲ φησιν, ὅτι διὰ τούτου τοῦ λημματίου ἄλλάς τε οὐκ ὀλίγας ἐυθείας εἰς τὸν κανόνα ἐγγράψομεν, καὶ δὴ καὶ ὑπὸ τὰς τῶν δεδομένων περιφερειῶν, ὧν ἁι ὑπʼ ἀυτὰς ἐυθεῖαι δέδονται, ὑπεροχὰς ὑποτείνουσας ἐυθείας.

Rursus Tertium theorema τὸ κατὰ διχοτομίαν i. m. W sit propositum, data aliqua recta in circulo, invenire rectam eam quae dimidium subtensae circumferentiae subtendit, et sit semicirculus ABG super diametrum AG, et sit data recta BG, et circumferentia GB in iter. W duo aequalia secetur in puncto D, et connectantur rectae AB, AD, BD, DG, et a puncto D in diametrum AG deducatur perpendicularis