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THIS book has only recently met our notice; it consists of a series of twenty-nine propositions deriving proofs of many of the chief properties of the ellipse by the method of circular projection. We have not come across any special novelty in the little book, nor have we detected many mistakes, though the lettering, from the use of like letters, we have found in many cases confusing. The figures face the text, and the circle figure is over the elliptical one; they are in many cases very roughly turned out by the engraver.
Conic Sections—The Method of Projections.
By Rev. S. Bolton Kincaid (London: Stanford, 1877.)
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Conic Sections—The Method of Projections . Nature 20, 218 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020218b0
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