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This page refers to Proposition 21 from Book I of Apollonius, as edited by Commandino
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I.21
If in a hyperbola or ellipse or circumference of a circle straight lines are dropped as ordinates to the diameter,
the square on them will be to the areas contained by the straight lines cut off by them beginning from the ends of
the transverse side of the figure, as the upright side of the figure is to the transverse,
and to each other as the areas contained by the straight lines cut off, as we have </s>