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Tractrix
Claude Perrault, 1670; Isaac Newton, 1676
The path of an object dragged by a string of fixed length whose other end moves along a straight line. Claude Perrault posed it in 1670 with a watch on its chain, the end of the chain drawn along the edge of a table. Turned about that line, it makes the pseudosphere.
x = t - tanh t, y = 1/cosh t
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