TO
MISS CAY. June
1845.
I have drawn
a picture of
Diana, and made an
octohed-ron on
a new principle, and found out a great
many
things in geometry. If you make two circles equal, and make three steps
with the compasses (of any size), and
cut them
out in card, and also three equal strips, with holes at each end, and
joint
them with thread to the upper side of one
circle
and the lower side of the other; then if you put a pin through the
centre
of one and turn the other, the one will turn,
and
if you draw the same thing on both in the same position,—if
you turn
them
ever so,—they will
always be in the same
position.
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