Syntaxis mathematica, or, A construction of the harder problemes of geometry with so much of the conicks as is therefore requisite and other more ordinary and usefull propositions inter-mixed, and tables to several purposes / by Tho. Gibson.
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Syntaxis mathematica, or, A construction of the harder problemes of geometry with so much of the conicks as is therefore requisite and other more ordinary and usefull propositions inter-mixed, and tables to several purposes / by Tho. Gibson.
Author
Gibson, Thomas, 17th/18th cent.
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London :: Printed by R. & W. Leybourne for Andrew Crook,
1655.
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Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
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"Syntaxis mathematica, or, A construction of the harder problemes of geometry with so much of the conicks as is therefore requisite and other more ordinary and usefull propositions inter-mixed, and tables to several purposes / by Tho. Gibson." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42708.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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NOTE 2.
It may be further noted, that if instead of e=4a one would put e=fa lines not being so liquid as numbers, the aequation would then be eee − fbee + ffcce − fffbcd=0 in∣creasing the dimensions of the lesser termes, for remedy whereof three lines are to be found in proportion one to another as are the magnitudes fb. ffc. fffb. of which let the first line be sup∣posed to containe Ʋnity as often as the superfi∣cics fb doth (for which purpose Ʋnity must be a line set, and agreed on before.) The names of
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these lines when found may be called g, h, k. and the aequation may be written
+ eee + gee + hce − kbc=0.
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