PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Almagesti (tr. Erasmus Reinhold)

Wittenberg, Johannes Lufft, 1549 · 80r

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am circumferentia AB et circumferentia BG, et sub ipsis coniunctae rectae lineae AB et BG datae et ipsae similiter. Dico quod, si iungamus rectam AG, dabitur et ipsa. Ducatur enim ex B diameter circuli BZE, et connectantur lineae BD, DG, GE, DE. Patet autem propter datam BG dari et GE, ac propter AB datam dari et BD, et DE. Et propter eadem, quae praemissa sunt, quoniam in circulo quadrilaterum est BGDE et lineae diagoniae sunt BD et GE, rectangulum quod continetur sub diagoniis aequale est utrisque rectangulis simul sumptis quae continentur sub lateribus oppositis. Quare quoniam datum est rectangulum contentum sub BD, GE, datur vero etiam rectangulum contentum sub BG, DE, datur igitur rectangulum contentum sub BE, GD. Sed data est BE diameter. Reliqua igitur subtendens circumferentiam GD erit data. Quare propter haec et GA subtendens residuum circumferentiae semicirculi erit data. Itaque si dentur duae circunferentiae et rectae eas subtendentes, dabitur per hoc theorema et recta ambas circumferentias coniunctas subtendens.