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Figure 13

Detailed ink drawing of a machine for oblique and compound collision

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J Mynde, illustration of the machine for oblique and compound collision in ’s Gravesande, Mathematical Elements, Vol. 1, Plate 39. Engraving, 189 x 163 mm, 1747.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/140103/013