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THE FIRST PERIOD

XIII. If = radius of the circle, then .

XIV. If is the centroid of the segment, then and .

XV. and .

XVI. If denote the arc (< semi-circle), and , its sine and its chord respectively, then .

This is equivalent, as Huyghens points out, to