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Excerpt from An Easy Introduction to the Higher Treatises on the Conic Sections
It should he remarked that the name Conic Sections chie?y refers to the Ellipse, Hyperbola, and Parabola, as curves that can be obtained by means of a right cone variously intersected by a plane.
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