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The commentaries consist chiefly of scholia and expositions of the classic text.
The third edition contained another feature, a scholium to Problem 5.
A scholium points out how this enables determining the planetary ellipses and the locations of their foci by indirect measurements.
A scholium points out that if the orbiting body were to reach such a center, it would then depart along the tangent.
The text is an actual historical source, whose statements may be regarded as authentic, while its dates are reliable if interpreted independently of the scholium.
The scholium, on the other hand, is of very doubtful historical value and must be used with extreme caution.
Is it best understood as a corollary, or as a remark that has its proper place in a scholium?
the German Baroque dramas to which the learned Silesians appended their scholia
The authorised version is the text on the page around which the variants and explanatory comments exist as supplemental scholia.
There were changes in lunar theory in the second edition, and a new scholium that concluded it.
