A Treatise of Algebra in three Parts : I. the fundamental Rules and Operations : II. the Composition and Resolution of Equations of all Degrees and the different Affections of their Roots : III. the Application of Algebra and Geometry to each other ; The general Properties of Geometrical Lines (1779)
MacLaurin, Colin · printed for Nourse... · leaf 333
n N , and AN be drawn , it will cut the perpendicular PM in M a point of the cissoid . So that if M be a point in the cissoid , AP : PM : : AR : RN : : v ' AR : V BR : : ^ /BP : / AP , and consequently DP X PMj — AP cub . that is , c — x Xy l — x 1 : which is the equation the locus of which was re… … § 16 .
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