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Excerpt from A Geometrical Treatise on Conic Sections: With Numerous Examples
I propose to investigate the properties of the Conic Sections from the definitions given above, and afterwards to show in what manner a Cone must be divided by a plane in order that the curve of intersection may be a Parabola, Ellipse, or Hyperbola.
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