Near Matches
Ignore Exact
Everything
2
conchoid of de Sluze (thing)
See all of conchoid of de Sluze
, no other writeups in this node.
(
thing
)
by
Noether
Wed Aug 16 2000 at 12:13:18
This
conchoid
was invented by abbot René de Sluze in 1662. Fix two
real number
constants. Then the
curve
is given by the
equation
a(x-a)(x
2
+ y
2
) = b
2
x
2
.
Facts sourced from http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/
Pearls of de Sluze
Conchoid
equation
Young, lovely, and wearing my towel
plane algebraic curve
Cycloid
Curve
real number