ellipse

• Man forms the idea of an ellipse, and ascertains the laws of ellipses. —  Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English
• We must also remember that the ellipse is an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone. —  The Theory and Practice of Perspective
• It stretched northward in a great ellipse, and then trended north-west and ended up roughly where is now the Triangle, at the west end of St. Quintin Avenue. —  The Kensington District The Fascination of London
• On the north of the ellipse, the river was bordered by a steep and abrupt bank, which took its rise at the peak of Manu on the west, and soon rose high enough to form a screen between the river and the earth. —  History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
• While it is true that it receives heat more rapidly in the half of the ellipse which is nearest the source of the inundation, it obtains less while it is farther away, and these two variations just balance each other Although the alterations in the eccentricity of its orbit do not vary the annual supply of heat which the earth receives, they are capable of changing the character of the seasons, and this in the way which we will now endeavour to set forth, though we must do it at the cost of considerable attention on the part of the reader, for the facts are somewhat complicated. —  Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography

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