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On the Contact-Property of the Eleven-point Conic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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It is sometimes the case that geometrical theorems, which are usually enunciated as properties of the triangle or the quadrilateral, may be stated more succinctly, and in a form that better suggests generalisation, as properties of the complete quadrilateral. Thus the theorem that is usually stated in the following form, “The three straight lines that join the middle points of opposite sides and the middle points of diagonals of a quadrilateral are concurrent and bisect one another at the point of concurrence,” may be enunciated more simply as a property of the straight lines that join the middle points of the three pairs of opposite sides of a complete four-point; and the latter form of enunciation suggests how the theorem may be generalised by projection. So too the figure that consists of four Points, any one of which is the orthocentre of the triangle formed by the other three, is better described as a complete four-point in which opposite sides intersect at right angles, (which may be called an orthic four-point).

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1891