“Parallel lines have a common end point at an infinite distance.”
Girard Desargues (1591–1661) French mathematician and engineer
Brouillion project (1639) as quoted by Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Projective Geometry (1987)
“When no point of a line is at a finite distance, the line itself is at an infinite distance.”
Brouillion project (1639) as quoted by Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Projective Geometry (1987)
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