In another question connected with this, the problem of drawing tangents to any curve, Descartes was drawn into a controversy with Pierre (de) Fermat (1601-1663), Gilles Persone de Roberval (1602-1675), and Girard Desargues (1593-1661). [Please select]
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Picture a circle surrounded by a bristling mass of tangents, or rather a polygon with its sides extended in all directions. [Please select]
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Let us forget, this happy evening, that there are such things as logarithms, and sines, and tangents, and Greek tragedies. [Please select]
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It whirled and shot off at unexpected tangents and danced as irresponsibly as a grasshopper from one place to another. [Please select]
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This formed a curve of which the longitudinal sides of the cells were tangents, and afforded two points of support. [Please select]
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The latter, however, continued to ascend, while the lightning described tangents to the convexity of her circumference; but she bore on, right through the midst of the fire. [Please select]
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