The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 4Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1818 - Natural history |
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... drawn through the same point of the periphery , which is absurd . PROP . IV . Fig . 4. A right line drawn through a point of a conic surface , so as neither to be a tangent , nor to be parallel to a right line contained in the conic sur ...
... drawn through the same point of the periphery , which is absurd . PROP . IV . Fig . 4. A right line drawn through a point of a conic surface , so as neither to be a tangent , nor to be parallel to a right line contained in the conic sur ...
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... drawn through the point P , to cut the conic surface . Fig . 6. Let the point B be without the base of the cone , and let QR , drawn through P , without or within the conic surface , be parallel to V B , and let it cut the conic surface ...
... drawn through the point P , to cut the conic surface . Fig . 6. Let the point B be without the base of the cone , and let QR , drawn through P , without or within the conic surface , be parallel to V B , and let it cut the conic surface ...
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... drawn from two points in the diameter of a parabola to cut or touch the curve : then , as the rectangle under the segments of the secant , or the square of the tangent , drawn from one point , is to the rectangle under the segment of ...
... drawn from two points in the diameter of a parabola to cut or touch the curve : then , as the rectangle under the segments of the secant , or the square of the tangent , drawn from one point , is to the rectangle under the segment of ...
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