The naval architect's and shipbuilder's pocket-book of formulae, rules, and tables and marine engineer's and surveyor's handy book of reference (1884)
Mackrow, Clement · London, C. Lockwood and co. · leaf 193
involute of a cii-cle describedaljout the centre of gravity and through the metacentre; and con.sequeritly the metacentric involute is the involute of the involute ofthat circle. M=heigbt of metacentre above centre of STavity.m = height of metacentre above centre of buoyancy.??; = radius of… … To aj)])roonmate to the form of cross section between n-ind andwater of a true isochronous 7oUi)ig ship. In tig. 143 let M be the meta-centre, G the centre of gravity,WW the upright water-plane, c thecentre of buoyancy. Draw the two lines w, G, andproduce them beyond G to 0, mak-ing G O = Wg—^- ;…
