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 26.

Detail from a large reconstruction drawing of the stem design method illustrated in Figure 25. The reconstructed curves superimpose exactly on the archaeologically recorded curves. (Illustration by T. Pevny)