"Hyperbola" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... vicious custom of that road, passed me. But I held on, repeating to myself texts of Scripture to give me courage. As the last car passed, I was whirled into the air by the rebound of the rafter. "Heavens!" I said, "if my orbit is a hyperbola, I shall never return to earth." Hastily I estimated its ordinates, and calculated the curve. What bliss! It was a parabola! After a flight of a hundred and seventeen cubits, I landed, head ...
— The Brick Moon, et. al. • Edward Everett Hale
... of an hyperbola whose center is on the axis of abscisses. In order to determine the position of the center, eliminate the x term, and find the distance from the origin o to a ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 • Various
... and DA AF, it is evident that by repeating this process we shall construct a curve PAR, which satisfies the condition that every point in it is equally distant from a given point and from the circumference of a given circle. Since PO-PD LO, and AO-AD FO, this curve is one branch of the hyperbola of which D ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 • Various |
