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Note on the Researches of Maclaurin on Circular Cubics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

F. Gomes Teixeira
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In the works known to us which contain historical or bibliographical information about circular cubics no sufficient indication of the researches of Maclaurin is found. Yet many of the classic propositions connected with these curves are due to this eminent geometer, who investigated constructions for unicursal circular cubics, for certain non-unicursal circular cubics, and for the special circular cubics now known as the trisectrix of Maclaurin, the oblique cissoid, and the strophoid. His name does not appear even in the list of writings on the strophoid published by Tortolini and Günther.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 30 , February 1911 , pp. 89 - 96
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1911

References

* See, for example, our Treatise on Special Curves, Vol. I., p. 20.

* See our Treatise on Special Curves, Vol. I., p. 45.