The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 01 (of 11)

chapter XIII.) F H will be less than F N; and therefore D N will fall

without the figure, and the strait line M N will touch the same figure only in the point D.

[Sidenote: In what proportion the same figures exceed a strait-lined triangle of the same altitude and base.]

6. The proportion of a deficient figure to its complement being known, it may also be known what prop...