The Kansas University Quarterly, Vol. I, No. 2, October 1892 — John Shaqi
The Kansas University Quarterly, Vol. I, No. 2, October 1892Various
History
The Kansas University Quarterly, Vol. I, No. 2, October 1892
Various
Natural history -- Periodicals; Science -- Periodicals
The quartic with three double points is a curve of the sixth class
having four double tangents and six cusps (Salmon’s H. P. C. Art. 243).
Hence its reciprocal is of the sixth degree with four double points,
six cusps, three double tangents, and no points of inflection.
The locus of intersection of tangents to a conic at right angles to
one another is a circle. Inverting:—the locus of intersection of
circles through the node and tangent a nodal, bicircular quartic and
at right angles to one another is a circle. Projecting:—through the
three nodes of a quartic draw two conics, each touching the quartic
and intersecting so that the two tangents to the conics at their point
of intersection, together with the lines from it to two of the nodes,
form a harmonic pencil; the locus of all such intersections is a conic
through these two nodes. Whenever the two tangents to the quartic from
the third node, together with the lines from it to the other two nodes,
form a harmonic pencil, this last conic breaks up into two right lines.
Any chord of a conic through O is cut harmonically by the conic and the
polar of O. Inverting from O and projecting:—from one of the nodes of
a trinodal quartic draw the two tangents to the quartic (not tangents
at the node); draw the conic through these two points of contact and
the three nodes; any line through the first mentioned node is cut
harmonically by this conic, the quartic and the line joining the other
two nodes.
If a triangle circumscribe a conic, the three lines from the angular
points of the triangle to the points of contact of the opposite sides
intersect in a point. Inverting and projecting:—through the three nodes
of a quartic draw three conics touching the quartic; through the point
of intersection of two of these conics, the point of contact of the
third, and the three nodes draw a conic; three such conics can be drawn
and they pass through a fixed point.
The eight points of contact of two conics with their four common
tangents lie on a conic, which is the locus of a point, the pairs of
tangents from which to the two given conics form a harmonic pencil.
Inverting and projecting:—two connodal trinodal quartics have four
common tangent conics through the three nodes; their eight points
of contact lie on another connodal trinodal quartic; if from any
point on the last quartic four conics be drawn through the nodes and
tangent in pairs to the first quartics, any line through a node is cut
harmonically by these four conics.
The eight common tangents to two conics at their common points all
touch a conic. Inverting and projecting:—two connodal trinodal quartics
intersect in four other points; eight conics can be drawn through the
three nodes tangent to the quartics at these points of intersection;
these eight conics all touch another connodal trinodal quartic.
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