Creighton, William Henry Paul, 1859- · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 90
of these points are known, by similar triangles it iseasy to show that their product is equal to the product of thesame quantities for the original point c. If it is desired to pro-duce the hyberbola from a upward the same method may beemployed, but the line BA is now ba and the line cb is… … C 4 b d Fig. 45.—Method of Drawing an Hyperbola. Second Method (see Fig. 45).—It is well known if a rectan-gular hyperbola and its asymptotes are given that if a straightline is drawn cutting the curve in two places and both asymp-totes the distance of one of the points on the curve from…
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