PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Almagesti (tr. Erasmus Reinhold)

Wittenberg, Johannes Lufft, 1549 · 79v

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aequiangulum triangulo DGZ, et sicut est recta linea AG ad GD lineam, ita GD ad GZ. Rectangulum igitur quod continetur sub AG GZ aequale est quadrato quod fit ex GD. Quare et GD recta dabitur longitudine, quae subtendit dimidium circumferentiae BG.

Per hoc quoque theorema Usus proximi theorematis i. m. W multae aliae rectae in circulo reperiuntur sumendo semisses propositarum circumferentiae, veluti, data recta subtendente duodecim partes circumferentiae, habebimus et subtendentem sex partes, deinde tres, deinde sesquipartem, denique et dodrantem unius partis circumferentiae. Invenimus autem ex hac computatione subtensam sesquiparti talium partium 34, scrupulorum 15, secundorum proxime, qualium diameter est 120, et subtensam dodranti unius partis, earundem 0, scrupulorum 47, secundorum 8.

Sit Quartum theorema τὸ κατὰ σύνθεσιν i. m. W rursus circulus ABGD circa diametrum AD, centrum vero Z, et a puncto A sint sumptae duae circunferentiae datae una post ali-