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MR. TAYLOR has been before the public as a writer on geometrical conics since 1863, in which year he brought out his “Geometrical Conies”; in 1872 we have the first edition, and in 1873 the second edition of his “The Geometry of Conics”; a smaller work than his first book (1863). Now we have a third edition with the above title. In May, 1875, Mr. Taylor, in a paper entitled “On the Method of Reversion applied to the Transformation of Angles” (read before the Mathematical Society, and subsequently printed in a more extended form in the Quarterly Journal, No. 53, 1875, with the title “The Homographic Transformation of Angles”), called attention to a “neglected work on conies by G. Walker, F.R.S. (1794)”: in this work we first meet with the properties of a circle, which Walker calls the generating circle, but which Mr. Taylor, in the work before us styles the eccentric circle; in the free use of this circle consists the main feature in the alterations made in this new edition; further, though still keeping well in view the proving chord-properties independently of tangent-properties, there is a rearrangement of the text; so that the two properties are not treated of in distinct chapters. In other ways also we think this little work is improved, but we need say no more upon a third edition.
The Elementary Geometry of Conics.
By C. Taylor Third Edition. (Cambridge: Deighton, 1880.)
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Cf. De Bary, "Vergl. Anat.," p. 185.
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The Elementary Geometry of Conics . Nature 22, 603 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022603a0
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