Trisecting an Angle Using a Conchoid
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This Demonstration shows how Nicomedes (c. 180 BC) used a conchoid to trisect an angle.
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Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (November 2012)
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[1] D. E. Smith, History of Mathematics, Vol. II, New York: Dover, 1958 pp. 299–300.
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