Ladies' Diary/Largest Cylinder from given Cone/Historical Note

Historical Note on Largest Cylinder from given Cone
This often-cited problem was raised by, about whom little is known.

informs us in his of $1992$ that the solution as given here is "something of a cheat", as it refers the reader to to one of 's texbooks.

This is puzzling, however, as this problem is cited as appearing in $1714$, and was not born until $1737$.

It was often the case that questions to were taken from already-published sources.