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481401
Caption: The eccentricity of a conic section completely characterizes its shape.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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File Size: 41.86 MB
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481508
Caption: For any hexagon in any conic section the three pairs of opposite sides intersect in points on a straight line when extended.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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File Size: 11.94 MB
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481450
Caption: The conic sections can be generated by projecting the circle formed by the intersection of a cone with the reality plane perpendicular to the cone's central axis.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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File Size: 38.40 MB
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481068
Caption: The three families of conic sections (ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola) result from intersecting a plane with a double cone.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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File Size: 20.18 MB
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507023
Caption: Hyperboloids of (left) one sheet and (right) two sheets
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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File Size: 30.92 MB
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506809
Caption: Illustration of a continuous and a discontinuous function
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 40.15 MB
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506983
Caption: The hyperbolic functions cosh x and sinh x
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 27.60 MB
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481330
Caption: Representation of an ellipsoid, a closed surface such that its intersection with any plane will produce an ellipse or a circle.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 23.02 MB
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506949
Caption: Pappus of Alexandria (c 320) discovered that a hyperbola could be used to trisect an acute angle
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 17.32 MB
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481493
Caption: Eratosthenes' knowledge of the sun's position and distance between points enabled him to calculate the Earth's circumference.
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 15.28 MB
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506962
Caption: The solution to the problem of doubling the volume of a cube, as proposed by Menaechmus in the 4th century BC
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 39.20 MB
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480987
Caption: Satellite dish shaped like a portion of a paraboloid in order to focus transmission signals onto the pickup receiver (feedhorn).
Artist: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Release: Not Applicable
File Size: 33.99 MB