{Circles and Ellipses [continued (4)]}[4th September 1990]

[Redbook7:275][19900904:1815]{Circles and Ellipses [continued (4)]}[4th September 1990]

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… but all this* business of the Outer Ellipse is just one way of looking at it!

For instance, what we may have at C is not so much a single point as an inward-turning tendency towards C (i[nner[ c[ircle]), at least on the o[uter] c[ircle]: this can turn the individual right round, of course, onto the i[nner] c[ircle], but more often he sends himself out again past M~, moving outwards. At A~ (diametric resonance from C) there is a returning tendency of a related kind.

(In relation to a circle, of course, a moving point may be turning inwards** (ie round a point rather than in a straight line) and yet still be turning outwards (ie the radius of its arc is wider than the radius of the circle from the same centre point).)***

*[See last three previous entries, [Redbook7:273-275][19900902:2325b]{Circles and Ellipses}[2nd September 1990]ff]

**[sic]

***[The final 5 words should probably be omitted, as ‘same’ appears misleading – it cannot be the same centre point as the arc, so presumably refers to the circle – & if ‘same’ is omitted than the other 4 words are unnecessary]

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