Subject: Re: [HM] Benjamin Bevan's Problem
From: Julio Gonzalez Cabillon (jgc@adinet.com.uy)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 15:50:24 EST
At 09:09 a.m. 28/02/00 +1200, Ken Pledger typed:
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| 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.
|
Yes, Mackay mentioned Benjamin Bevan in Proc. Edin. Math. Soc. 1893.
Julio Gonzalez Cabillon
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