An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective GeometryLehmer, Derrick Norman
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An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry
Lehmer, Derrick Norman
Geometry, Projective
*66. Lines joining four points of the locus to a fifth.* Suppose that the
points _S_, _S’_, _B_, _C_, and _D_ are fixed, and that four points, _A_,
_A__1_, _A__2_, and _A__3_, are taken on the locus at the intersection
with it of any four harmonic rays through _B_. These four harmonic rays
give four harmonic points, _L_, _L__1_ etc., on the fixed ray _SD_. These,
in turn, project through the fixed point _M_ into four harmonic points,
_N_, _N__1_ etc., on the fixed line _DS’_. These last four harmonic points
give four harmonic rays _CA_, _CA__1_, _CA__2_, _CA__3_. Therefore the
four points _A_ which project to _B_ in four harmonic rays also project to
_C_ in four harmonic rays. But _C_ may be any point on the locus, and so
we have the very important theorem,
_Four points which are on the locus, and which project to a fifth point of
the locus in four harmonic rays, project to any point of the locus in four
harmonic rays._
*67.* The theorem may also be stated thus:
_The locus of points from which, four given points are seen along four
harmonic rays is a point-row of the second order through them._
*68.* A further theorem of prime importance also follows:
_Any two points on the locus may be taken as the centers of two projective
pencils which will generate the locus._
*69. Pascal’s theorem.* The points _A_, _B_, _C_, _D_, _S_, and _S’_ may
thus be considered as chosen arbitrarily on the locus, and the following
remarkable theorem follows at once.
_Given six points, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, on the point-row of the second order,
if we call_
_L the intersection of 12 with 45,_
_M the intersection of 23 with 56,_
_N the intersection of 34 with 61,_
_then __L__, __M__, and __N__ are on a straight line._
[Figure 13]
FIG. 13
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