The Geometry of ConicsDeighton, Bell & Company, 1873 |
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abscissa asymptotes auxiliary circle auxiliary point bisects chords bisects the angle CA² Cambridge CB² CD² central conic centre chord QQ chords parallel chords project concyclic cone Conic Sections conjugate diameters conjugate hyperbola conjugate radii constant ratio CP² draw drawn ellipse equally inclined Fcap Fellow of St Fellow of Trinity fixed point focal chord focus Hence intersection late Fellow latus rectum let fall locus meet the asymptotes meet the curve meet the directrix meets the axis middle point minor axis normal parabola parallel chords parallelogram Pembroke College plane PN² point Q principal ordinate projection PROP QV² radius rectangle rectangular hyperbola right angles right-angled triangles Shew shewn sides St John's College straight line joining supplementary angles tangent tangent at Q Trinity College vertex vertices
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