Image: Parabola connection with areas of a square and a rectangle
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Description: Apollonius of Perga introduced the name "parabola" after he derived the connection of each point on a parabola with a square and rectangle of equal areas. Here we take a "school parabola" y=x2 and illustrate the connection mentioned above. Coordinate axes are shown only for convenience. See the book Ot N'yutona k Kepleru by D.V.Anosov, p. 36 (ISBN 5940572294)
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