Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15343

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    Date
    17th century
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p5
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 305mm
    width (page): 189mm
    Subject
    Description
    This document by John Collins (although not in his hand) provides solutions related to 'problemata triangularia', as seen in triangles insisting upon the base of a circle. His solutions are written out as well as demonstrated synthetically.
    Transcription
    That if the summer of the Angles hcg and heg be equal to the Angle ghg, then as ch; to he, so cg to eg.
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Related fellows
    John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
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