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In this summary the theorems and their corollaries are given without proofs, restated in our modern notation. In Liber Primus Jan de Witt operates purely verbally, without using our common symbols +, -,×,:, =, etc.
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Grootendorst, A.W. (2000). Summary. In: Jan de Witt’s Elementa Curvarum Linearum, Liber Primus. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1238-6_2
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