Mechanical drawing self-taught: comprising instructions in the selection and preparation of drawing instruments, elementary instruction in practical mechanical drawing together with examples in simple geometry and elementary mechanism, including screw threads, gear wheels, mechanical motions, engines and boilers (1883)
hen increase the length of lineP F to the right of C by an amount equal to theradius A C, and then diminish it to an amount equalto the radius 1^: D, thus obtaining the point F, and tlielatter will be tlie location of centre for com[)asses tostrike the lai:(^ curve. Another method of finding tlie… … scribing circle as it rolls outside of P P. Let thepoint B represent the centre of the generating circle
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-400-277.webp)
