A Short Treatise on the Conic Sections: In Which the Three Curves Are Derived From a General Description on a Plane, and the Most Useful Properties of ... From a Common Principle (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from A Short Treatise on the Conic Sections: In Which the Three Curves Are Derived From a General Description on a Plane, and the Most Useful Properties of Each Are Deduced From a Common Principle

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Excerpt from A Short Treatise on the Conic Sections: In Which the Three Curves Are Derived From a General Description on a Plane, and the Most Useful Properties of Each Are Deduced From a Common Principle

The following Treatise was drawn up for the use of the author's pupils; and the only motive which induced him to publish it, was a desire of promoting the study of Conic Sections in this University, by facilitating the attainment of that useful branch of geometry, which has not been sufficiently attended to. Some enter upon Newton's Principia with little or no previous knowledge of conics, taking the common properties of the sections for granted. Others, who have once laboured through some kind of demonstration, think it sufficient, if they remember the propositions, although they have forgotten the proofs. Such inattention to a science, which is of so much importance in the present system of philosophy, I can attribute only to the want of a concise geometrical treatise.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.