Suppose it is required to describe an ellipse the longer diameter of which is 8 inches, and the distance between the foci 5 inches.

2 is a circle which contains an ellipse, tangent to the circle at Q and P. Line segments from M (on the circle) and N (on the ellipse) meet at point A.] FIG.

This is the play of Brahm; endlessly to dissever, in time and space, and to unite in consciousness, like the geometrician who discovers every ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola, in the cone where all inhere.

Wherever an ellipse is supposable in a discourse, gesture must intervene to explain this ellipse.

The form of the dome has one inconvenience, viz., the embrasure in it is necessarily very oblique, and offers quite an elongated ellipse to blows, and the edges of the bevel upon a portion of the circumference are not strong enough.

He then had the fortunate idea of trying an ellipse with the same axis as his tentative oval.

A transverse section of the Poti approaches an ellipse in shape.

" She sat twirling the cord upon which the dozens of great brass rings were strung, watching the shining ellipse they made as they revolved,like a child set down upon the carpet with a plaything,expecting no answer, only waiting for the next vagrant whimsicality that should come across her brain,not altogether without method, either,to give it utterance.