The Eccentric Motions of the Bossa Nova

I found the five
unanswered equations of Apollonius of Perga
scrawled on the last
page of a 19th century German bible.

I found a formula
for the eccentric motions of celestial lovers
and the unrequited desire of planets.

I found the names of the conic sections,
the dates of their birth and death.

I found the tangents and harmonic
divisions of the bossa nova.

I think Tom Jobim wrote those notes.