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Not exactly in this form, I suppose. See e.g. Victor J. Katz's History of Mathematics, 3rd edition, p. 484 "Both [Descartes and Fermat] used as their basic tool a single axis along which one of the unknowns was measured rather than the two axes used today, and neither insisted that the lines measuring the second unknown intersect the single axis at right angles" I'm interested in the evolution of the concept and I'm wondering if this figure belongs actually to the translator, not to Newton.
