Master Cross-Repository Concordance & SymPy Circle Audit¶
Mapping Casey’s Sequel (1888 / 1892) Across euclid, elements, altshiller-court, etc, pappus, and sympy.geometry
1. Cross-Repository Canon Concordance¶
Every proposition cluster in John Casey's Sequel to Euclid bridges classical Euclidean propositions (geometor/euclid, geometor/elements) forward to Nathan Altshiller-Court's College Geometry (geometor/altshiller-court), Clark Kimberling's Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers (geometor/etc), and projective configurations in geometor/pappus:
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Casey Locus & Folio (pp.) |
Theorem / Topic |
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Book I, Prop. 10 Cor. · f. |
Concurrency of Altitudes (Orthocentre $H$) |
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§§ 93–96 (Ch. III) |
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Book I, Props. 17–18 · f. |
Centres of Mean Position (Weighted Barycentres) |
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§§ 65–72 (Ch. III) |
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Book I, Misc. Ex. 42–46 · f. |
Euler Line ($O, G, N, H$ with $HG = 2\,GO$) |
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§§ 101–103 (Ch. III) |
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Book II, Props. 1–2, 7, 10 · f. |
Apollonius Median, Euler Identity & Stewart’s Theorem |
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§§ 68, 243, 307–309 |
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Book IV, Prop. 5 · f. |
Nine-Points Circle ($R_9 = R/2$, 9 concyclic points) |
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§§ 104–113 (Ch. III) |
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Book III, Props. 20–22 · f. |
Inverse Points, Power of a Point & Orthogonal Circles |
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§§ 358–376, 417–428 (Ch. VIII) |
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Book III, Props. 23–24, 28 & VI.V · f. |
Radical Axis, Radical Centre, Coaxal Pencils & Limiting Points |
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§§ 429–498 (Ch. VIII) |
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Book VI, Sec. I, Props. 2 & 4 · f. |
Ceva’s Concurrency & Menelaus’s Transversal Theorems |
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§§ 313–335 (Ch. VI) |
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Book VI, Sec. II, Props. 1–6 · f. |
Centres of Similitude & Monge’s Four Axes Theorem |
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§§ 23–53, 402–416 |
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Book VI, Sec. III & Sec. VI · f. |
Harmonic Section, Complete Quadrilateral, Anharmonic Ratio, Desargues & Pascal |
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§§ 339–357 (Chs. VI–VII) |
(Pappus VII.129–139) |
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Book VI, Sec. IV, Props. 1–9 & Cor. 1 · f. |
Circular Inversion & Pappus’s Arbelos Chain |
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§§ 518–535 (Ch. IX) |
(Pappus IV) |
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Book VI, Sec. IV, Props. 10–11 & Cor. 2 · f. |
Casey’s Generalized Ptolemy Theorem, Feuerbach’s Theorem & Hart’s Circle |
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§§ 200–205, 502–504, 536–546 |
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Book III, Props. 25, 27 & VI.VII · f. |
Poles & Polars, La Hire’s Reciprocity, Self-Conjugate Triangles & Brianchon |
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§§ 377–401 (Ch. VIII) |
(Dual of Pascal) |
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Supp. Ch., Secs. I & III · f. |
Isogonal Conjugates, Symmedians, Lemoine’s Point $K$, Lemoine & Cosine Circles |
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§§ 557–590, 616–628, 661–673 |
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Supp. Ch., Secs. II–VII & Misc. · f. |
Brocard Points $\Omega, \Omega'$, Brocard Circle, Tucker/Taylor, Harmonic Polygons, Steiner, Tarry & Longchamps |
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§§ 629–689 (Ch. X) |
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2. sympy.geometry.Circle Capability Audit vs. geometor.casey¶
Inspection of sympy.geometry.curve.Circle in SymPy confirms that standard sympy.geometry provides basic Euclidean primitives (center, radius, equation, tangent_lines, is_tangent) yet omits the entire modern Euclidean circle-algebra toolkit codified by Casey. geometor.casey supplies exact closed-form symbolic implementations for every gap (audited programmatically via audit_sympy_circle_gaps()):
Euclidean Circle Concept |
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Algebraic Invariant / Upstream Candidate Note |
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Power of a Point $\operatorname{pow}(P, C)$ |
Missing ( |
Exact rational/radical $|PO|^2 - r^2$ (Casey III.20–24). |
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Circle Orthogonality ($C_1 \perp C_2$) |
Missing ( |
Exact |
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Radical Axis & Radical Centre |
Missing ( |
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Linear difference $C_1(x, y) - C_2(x, y) = 0$ + compass construction for disjoint circles (Casey III.21, 23–24). |
Poncelet Limiting Points $L_1, L_2$ |
Missing ( |
Real zero-radius members $D \pm |DT_1|\,\hat{u}$ of non-intersecting coaxal pencil (Casey III.23, VI.V). |
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Circular Inversion $P \mapsto P'$ |
Missing ( |
Exact conformal map $O + \frac{r^2}{|OP|^2}(P - O)$ (Casey VI.IV.1–9). |
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Pole, Polar & La Hire Reciprocity |
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Bilinear polarization $(x_0 - h)(x - h) + (y_0 - k)(y - k) = r^2$ + pure-straightedge quadrangle construction (Casey III.25, VI.VII). |
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Direct & Transverse Bitangent Quadrance |
Missing ( |
Exact $|O_1 O_2|^2 - (r_1 \mp r_2)^2$ powering Casey’s Generalized Ptolemy Theorem (Casey VI.IV.9–10). |