Example 7 As shown in Figure 6, quadrilateral is inscribed in , its side and the extension of meet at point , and the extensions of and meet at point . Two tangents are drawn from to , touching it at points and . Prove: are collinear.
Solution
Proof: From the given, we know that and are two secants of the incircle of . Let and intersect at point .
Then, by Property 3, we know that are collinear.
Therefore, are collinear.
To introduce Example 8, let's discuss the figure represented by Property 2(2).
As shown in Figure 7, is tangent to the sides of at points and . Then, is the midpoint of the chord cut by the secant through point on if and only if are concyclic.
Handling this figure with inversion, we can obtain a new proposition:
Let the power of point with respect to be , and perform the inversion . Then is a self-inverse circle. Let the inverse of point be . The inverse of line is a circle passing through points and and internally tangent to at point . The inverse of line is a circle passing through points and and internally tangent to at point . The line remains unchanged. When does not coincide with the center , and are not equal. And are concyclic if and only if are collinear.
Thus, the inverted proposition is the following example.