Definition:Feuerbach Circle/Historical Note

From ProofWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Historical Note on Feuerbach Circle

Although named after Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, the Feuerbach Circle was actually discovered in $1820$ by Jean-Victor Poncelet and Charles Julien Brianchon.

It bears Feuerbach's name as the result of Feuerbach's Theorem, which extends the known properties of the circle to include the tangencies to the incircle and excircles.


Sources