Historical Mechanisms for Drawing Curves

dc.contributor.author	Taimina, Daina
dc.date.accessioned	2006-03-20T18:56:45Z
dc.date.available	2006-03-20T18:56:45Z
dc.date.issued	2004-04-21
dc.description.abstract	Mechanical devices such as linkages for drawing curves are known already from Ancient Greece. Later linkages found use in different mechanical devices and machines like we can see it in 13th century drawings by Honnecourt or in 16th century machine drawings by Agricola. In 17th century Descartes accepted only those curves that had a mechanical device to draw them. Mechanical curve drawing devices later became incorporated into different machine design. In this paper examples from Reuleaux kinematic model collection in Cornell University are given and some history of linkages discussed.	en_US
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dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/2718
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Cornell Library Technical Reports and Papers	en_US
dc.subject	Mechanical devices	en_US
dc.subject	drawing devices	en_US
dc.title	Historical Mechanisms for Drawing Curves	en_US
dc.type	technical report	en_US

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