Squaring the lunes of the hexagon and the square
Circles doubled and their inscribed square and hexagon, worked toward the quadrature of lunes
A closely worked geometrical sheet crowded with triangles, sectors, semicircles and circles inscribing a square and a hexagon. Leonardo compares the 'portions' cut from circles that are each double the other, establishes that half the circle of the hexagon equals the whole circle of the square, and works step by step toward the quadrature of the lunes so formed. The reasoning turns on subtracting portions, dividing excesses, and equating triangles to lunes.
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Portions of the hexagon and the square from doubled circles
The hexagon and the square are born of two circles, each double the other. To find the proportion of the hexagon's portion to the square's portion, Leonardo brings the parent circles together and observes how far they depart from being double.
Half the hexagon's circle equals the whole square's circle
Because the two circles are double, the portions are stripped from each; subtracting the square from the hexagon shows by how much the six portions fall short of the four portions of the square. Half the circle of the hexagon is set equal to the whole circle of the square.
Quadrature of the lune of the hexagon
By removing portions, subtracting the square of the half-hexagon and dividing the resulting excess by 3, Leonardo obtains the lune n of the difference between the hexagon's portion and the square's portion. Because triangle m equals lune f, adding the quadrature of lune n to triangle m yields the quadrature of the hexagon's lune.
Squaring a lune from a double sector
On the double sector labelled c - d e - a - b - g f, casting off c on one side and b on the other and squaring e yields the quadrature of the lune. He notes that f is greater than the lune by the whole of b.
