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Let us come to another interesting class of geometric objects: circles. Speaking about circles in general Cayley-Klein geometries first raises a conceptual issue. Euclidean circles have several geometric properties on which one could base a more general definition.
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Richter-Gebert, J. (2011). Circles and Cycles. In: Perspectives on Projective Geometry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17286-1_23
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