of the water lines
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back matter (details adjoined; 90º cw; autotone minus 30%)
William Laister. A Treatise on Ship Draughting : A Plain Statement of the Process of Delineating the Lines of a Vessel on a Floor.
San Francisco (1866)
Harvard (Cabot Science Library) copy, digitized October 9, 2007
same scan (minus color), at archive.org
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passing a true curve through somewhat irregular points 8
a curve too acute to spring a line on 8
in another way of ending : draw a line 9
to suit the outside. the philosophy of 9
the difference between breadths and heights 9
they are, in fact, the same line seen from a different stand-point 9
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epigram ex p 8
tags:
curves; horizon; lines; philosophy; skies; weather
William Laister, A Treatise on Ship Draughting (1866)