hyperbola

What’s more, the two given points were the local maximum and minimum of the two halves of the hyperbola.

The planet would then have moved in a parabola, or an hyperbola, curves not returning into themselves.

To assimilate the hyperbola to the ellipse was rather to contradict this evidence.

Only on the assumption that the social value curve for this totality of commodities is a rectangular hyperbola.

When the conic is a hyperbola the meridian line is in the form of a looped curve (fig. 12).

This is the equation of an hyperbola whose center is on the axis of abscisses.