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It is well known that in a pappian projective space (irrespective of dimension and characteristic of the ground field) every quadric with at least one simple point admits a stereographic projection. See, e.g., the survey by \textit{E. M. Schröder} [Metric geometry. in: Buekenhout, Francis (ed.), Handbook of incidence geometry. Amsterdam, North-Holland. 945--1013 (1995; Zbl 0826.51008)]. In the paper under review the particular case of a cone with a one-point vertex lying in a real projective \((n+1)\)-space is considered using affine coordinates. Also, it is pointed out how to obtain a kind of `paraboloid model' of \({\mathbb R}^n\), thus generalizing the well-known parabola model of \({\mathbb R}^2\). The possibility to extend the results to an arbitrary ground field of characteristic \(\neq 2\) and connections to Laguerre geometry [see \textit{K. Prażmowski} and \textit{K. Radziszewski}, Zesz. Nauk., Geom. 21, 3--39 (1995; Zbl 0868.51008)] are sketched. Reviewer's remark: The author refers, without stating a page number, to \textit{W. Benz} [Vorlesungen über Geometrie der Algebren. (German). (Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag) (1973; Zbl 0258.50024)] for what he calls the `parabeln model' of the real affine plane. This reference could not be verified, and it has to be added here that `parabeln model' is \textit{not} a correct German phrase.