Plane and solid analytic geometry; an elementary textbook (1901)
Ashton, Charles H. (Charles Hamilton), 1866- · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 179
Fig. 86. 160 ANALYTIC GEOMETRY [Ch. XII, | intersection of tangents at the extremities of chordsthrough any fixed point. This property enables us to construct the polar of anypoint; for any number of points on the polar may be … Fig. 87. determined by finding the intersections of tangents atthe extremities of chords through the point. 2. The polar of any point Px with respect to a centralconic is parallel to the tangent at the point where the diameterthrough Px cuts the conic.
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