Tangency Press Essay 1 (27·IV·2014)

Capturing the Curve: The underlying concepts

in the design of La Belle (1684)

Taras Pevny

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FIGURE 10 a&b

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FIGURE 10 a&b.

Details of Plates 2 and 21 from the 1670 Album de Colbert showing the timbers of the stern assembly and details of the rabbet. In Figure 10b the overlapping of the two lowest planks onto the sternpost and outer sternpost is clearly visible. (Labeled by T. Pevny)