Subject: Re: [HM] Benjamin Bevan's Problem
From: Ken Pledger (Ken.Pledger@vuw.ac.nz)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 16:09:35 EST
The history of the nine-point circle seems to have been
investigated by the careful historian James Sturgeon Mackay. One of the
historical notes in his "Plane Geometry" (1904) is the following from p.224.
"The characteristic property of the nine-point circle was first
published in the 'Gentleman's Mathematical Companion' for 1808, p.133, by
John Whitley.
"The designation often given to the circle, namely, Euler's circle,
is quite erroneous.
"A pretty full account of the history of the circle and of its
properties will be found in the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical
Society, vol.xi, pp.19-57 (1893)."
That article was presumably by Mackay himself, but our library
hasn't got Proc. Edin. Math. Soc. for 1893. Anyone with access to it may
like to check whether Mackay mentioned Bevan.
Ken Pledger.
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