Charts that compute

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Nomogrammes à cercles concourants

nomograms of concurrent circles · nomogrammes à cercles cotés (labelled circles) · concurrent lines and circles for quadratic equations (§47)

Made by
Maurice d'Ocagne (general theory, paper of 1896); an earlier labelled-circle chart by Captain Ricour (1873)
Year
1896
Field
Nomograms and computing charts
Kind
Computing chart
Room
Charts that compute
Nomogrammes à cercles concourants
Plate from d'Ocagne 1921, Traité de nomographie, 2e éd.Internet Archive

See the original page — fig. 47, printed p. 113 (archive leaf n136)

Published 1921 (A) and the figure is a treatise illustration by d'Ocagne, who died in 1938 (B ended 2008).

The data it needs

  • z1 input (one family) · quantitative
  • z2 input (one family) · quantitative
  • z3 output (the family read at the concurrence) · quantitative

Built in 5 steps, as its maker described

ch. II §46, pp. 109–113, fig. 47 p. 113; §47, pp. 113–115

Skeleton drawing, not the original plate

121 other forms share this skeleton

Source

d'Ocagne 1921, Traité de nomographie, 2e éd.

Attribution checked against the source

Searches, not citations

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