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The study of conic sections (or briefly, conies) is said to have begun in 430 B.C., when the Athenians, suffering from a plague, appealed to the oracle at Delos and were told to double the size of Apollo’s cubical altar.
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Coxeter, H.S.M., Beck, G. (1993). Conics. In: The Real Projective Plane. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2734-2_6
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