“In his chief work Desargues enunciates the propositions:—1. A straight line can be considered as produced to infinity and then the two opposite extremities are united.2. Parallel lines are lines meeting at infinity and conversely.3. A straight line and a circle are two varieties of the same species.On these he bases a general theory of the plane sections of a cone.”

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