A history of Greek mathematics Vol.II from Aristarchus to Diophantus by Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1921
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MACEDONIA is GREECE and will always be GREECE- (if they are desperate to steal a name, Monkeydonkeys suits them just fine)
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THE COLLECTION. BOOKS VI, V<strong>II</strong> 399<br />
The test <strong>of</strong> apparent equality is <strong>of</strong> course that the two straight<br />
lines should subtend equal angles at F.<br />
The main points in the pro<strong>of</strong> are these.<br />
The plane through<br />
CF, CK is perpendicular <strong>to</strong> the planes BFE, PFM and LFR<br />
;<br />
hence CF is<br />
perpendicular <strong>to</strong> BE, QF <strong>to</strong> PM and HF <strong>to</strong> LR,<br />
whence BC and CE subtend equal angles at F : so do LH, HR,<br />
and PQ, QM.<br />
Since FC bisects the angle AFD and AC:CD = AK:KD<br />
t<br />
(<strong>by</strong> the polar property), Z CFK is a right angle. And CF is<br />
the intersection <strong>of</strong> two planes at right angles, namely AFK<br />
and BFE, in the former <strong>of</strong> which FK lies; therefore KF is<br />
perpendicular <strong>to</strong> the plane BFE, and therefore <strong>to</strong> FN. Since<br />
therefore (<strong>by</strong> the polar property) LN : NP = IjK : KP, it<br />
follows that the angle LFP is bisected <strong>by</strong> FN] hence LN, NP<br />
are apparently equal.<br />
Again<br />
LC:CM = LN:NP = LF: FP = LF: FM.<br />
Therefore the angles LFC, CFM are equal, and LC, CM<br />
are apparently equal.<br />
Lastly<br />
LR:PM=LK:KP=LN:NP=LF:FP; therefore<br />
the isosceles triangles FLR, FPM are equiangular; therefore<br />
the angles PFM, LFR, and consequently PFQ, LFH, are<br />
equal. Hence LP, RM will appear <strong>to</strong> be parallel <strong>to</strong> AD.<br />
We have, based on this proposition, an easy method <strong>of</strong><br />
'<br />
solving Pappus's final problem (Prop. 54). Given<br />
ABBE and any point within it, <strong>to</strong> find outside the plane <strong>of</strong><br />
the circle a point <strong>from</strong> which the circle will have the appearance<br />
<strong>of</strong> an ellipse with centre C'<br />
a circle<br />
We have only <strong>to</strong> produce the diameter AD through C <strong>to</strong> the<br />
pole K <strong>of</strong> the chord BE perpendicular <strong>to</strong><br />
AD and then, in<br />
the plane through AK perpendicular <strong>to</strong> the plane <strong>of</strong> the circle,<br />
<strong>to</strong> describe a semicircle on CK as diameter.<br />
this semicircle satisfies the condition.<br />
Book V<strong>II</strong>. On the 'Treasury <strong>of</strong> Analysis'.<br />
Any point F on<br />
Book V<strong>II</strong> is <strong>of</strong> much greater importance, since it gives an<br />
account <strong>of</strong> the books forming what was called the Treasury <strong>of</strong><br />
Analysis (dvaXvouevo? <strong>to</strong>t<strong>to</strong>s) and, as regards those <strong>of</strong> the books<br />
which are now lost, Pappus's account, with the hints derivable<br />
<strong>from</strong> the large collection <strong>of</strong> lemmas supplied <strong>by</strong> him <strong>to</strong> each<br />
400 PAPPUS OF ALEXANDRIA<br />
book, practically constitutes our only source <strong>of</strong> information.<br />
The Book begins (p. 634) with a definition <strong>of</strong> analysis and<br />
synthesis which, as being the most elaborate <strong>Greek</strong> utterance<br />
on the subject, deserves <strong>to</strong> be quoted in full.<br />
The so-called 'AvaXvo/xevos is, <strong>to</strong> put it shortly, a special<br />
'<br />
body <strong>of</strong> doctrine provided for the use <strong>of</strong> those who, after<br />
finishing the ordinary Elements, are desirous <strong>of</strong> acquiring the<br />
power <strong>of</strong> solving problems which may be set them involving<br />
(the construction <strong>of</strong>) lines, and it is useful for this alone. It is<br />
the work <strong>of</strong> three men, Euclid the author <strong>of</strong> the Elements,<br />
Apollonius <strong>of</strong> Perga and Aristaeus the elder, and proceeds <strong>by</strong><br />
way <strong>of</strong> analysis and synthesis.'<br />
Definition<br />
<strong>of</strong> Analysis and Synthesis.<br />
'<br />
Analysis, then, takes that which is sought as if it were<br />
admitted and passes <strong>from</strong> it through its successive consequences<br />
<strong>to</strong> something which is admitted as the result <strong>of</strong><br />
synthesis : for in analysis we assume that which is sought<br />
as if it were already done (yeyovos), and we inquire what it is<br />
<strong>from</strong> which this results, and again what is the antecedent<br />
cause <strong>of</strong> the latter, and so on, until <strong>by</strong> so retracing our steps<br />
we come upon something already known or belonging <strong>to</strong> the<br />
class <strong>of</strong> first principles, and such a method we call analysis<br />
as being solution backwards {avaizaXiv Xvcriv).<br />
1<br />
But in synthesis, reversing the process, we take as already<br />
done that which was last arrived at in the analysis and, <strong>by</strong><br />
arranging in their natural order as consequences what before<br />
were antecedents, and successively connecting them one with<br />
another, we arrive finally at the construction <strong>of</strong> what was<br />
sought ; and this we call synthesis.<br />
'<br />
Now analysis is <strong>of</strong> two kinds, the one directed <strong>to</strong> searching<br />
for the truth and called theoretical, the other directed <strong>to</strong><br />
finding what we are <strong>to</strong>ld <strong>to</strong> find and called 'problematical.<br />
(1) In the theoretical kind we assume what is sought as if<br />
it were existent and true, after which we pass through its<br />
successive consequences, as if they <strong>to</strong>o were true and established<br />
<strong>by</strong> virtue <strong>of</strong> our hypothesis, <strong>to</strong> something admitted : then<br />
(a), if that something admitted is true, that which is sought<br />
will also be true and the pro<strong>of</strong> will correspond in the reverse<br />
order <strong>to</strong> the analysis, but (6), if we come upon something<br />
admittedly false, that which is sought will also be false.<br />
(2) In the problematical kind we assume that which is propounded<br />
as if it were known, after which we pass through its