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Porism


 

The subject of porisms is perplexed by the multitude of different views which have been held by geometers as to what a porism really was and is.

References

A valuable chapter on porisms (from a philological standpoint) is included in J.L. Heiberg's Litterargeschichtliche Studien über Euklid (Leipzig, 1882) ; and the following books or tracts may also be mentioned:

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  • Aug. Richter, Porismen nach Simson bearbeitet (Elbing, 1837)
  • M Cantor, "Über die Porismen des Euklid and deren Divinatoren," in Schlomilch's Zeitsch. f. Math. u. Phy. (1857), and Literaturzeitung (1861), p. 3 seq.
  • Th. Leidenfrost, Die Porismen des Euklid (Programm der Realschule zu Weimar, 1863)
  • Fr. Buch-binder, Euclids Porismen und Data (Programm der kgl. Landesschule Pforta, 1866).