Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Elementary Treatise on the Geometry of Conics
A conic is a curve traced by a point which moves in a plane containing a fixed point and a fixed straight line, in such a way that its distance from the fixed point is in a constant ratio to its perpendicular distance from the fixed straight line.
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