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A surface of revolution defined by Kepler. It consists of more than half of a circular arc rotated about an axis passing through the endpoints of the arc. The equations of the upper and lower boundaries in the - plane are
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for and . It is the outside surface of a spindle torus.
It is also a quartic surface given by Cartesian equation
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or
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