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Com és la vertadera figura X de l'Ars compendiosa inveniendi veritatem?

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The Figure X of the Ars compendiosa inveniendi veritatem was reproduced by Ivo Salzinger in the Mainz edition, in a form different from that transmitted by the manuscripts in which the work is preserved. These offer two different versions of the figure: one a circular representation similar to that of the eighteenth- century edition, but with a differcnt order of terms; and another which distributes the sixteen terms in pairs at the vertices of two squares inscribed in a circle. This study is an attempt to organize the information offered by the manuscripts so as to establish the possible original structure of Figure X, while at the same time proposing an interpretation of this structure, in which one can glimpse changes later to be introduced in the Ars demonstrativa.