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The Description and Use of the Sector (1624)

Gunter, Edmund · leaf 149

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he lines oj Segment s\ i To divide a, circle given into twofegrnents,according to a proportion giuen.| 2 To[findea[proportionbetvotene a circle and hisfegmentsgiuen. Let the ScElor be opened in the points of an ioo, to thediameter of the circle giuen: fo a parallell taken from thepoints… … Ofthtlines offafcribed bodies* . tj% parallell to the diameter: lb the number of points wneremthey ftay, fnall fhew the proportion to ioo. As if the diameter of the circle giuen were B L> the depthof the greater f egment L O being 75, doth (hew the propor-tion of the f egment O MLNto the circle…

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