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The philosophical and mathematical commentaries of Proclus on the first book of Euclid's elements (Vol. 1 of 2)

Note 31 — SECTION IV.

Thomas Taylor translation

Methodus hæc cum algebrâ speciosâ facilitate contendit, evidentiâ vero et demonstrationum elegantiâ eam longe superare videtur: ut abunde constabit, si quis conferat hanc Apollonii doctrinam de Sectione Rationis cum ejusdem Problematis Analysi Algebraicâ, quam exhibuit clarissimus Wallisius, tom. ii. Operum Math. cap. liv. p. 220.

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