Excerpt from Mathematics Compiled From the Best Authors and Intended to Be the Text-Book of the Course of Private Lectures on These Sciences in the University of Cambridge, Vol. 2 of 2
The man: of an arc is the line, drawn from the centre through the end of the are, and terminated by the tan gent. So FG or FK is the secant of ab, or of bcd.
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