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However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion. Discours sur les passions de l'amour. 1653. |
Loci: ConvergenceVan Schooten's Ruler ConstructionsProblem IIProblem II: Given a straight line with endpoints A, B, to bisect it.
Construction: Take any point C at random away from the line AB, and from A through C draw the indefinitely long line ACD, and locate on that line CD equal to the double of AC, and from D through B make a straight line. In that line, put BE equal to BD, and, joining C, D, I say it bisects AB at F.
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