A linkage which draws the inverse of a given curve. It can also convert circular to linear motion. The rods satisfy
and , and , , and remain Collinear. Coxeter (1969, p. 428) shows that if ,
then
See also Peaucellier Inversor
References
Courant, R. and Robbins, H. What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods.
Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, p. 157, 1978.
Coxeter, H. S. M. Introduction to Geometry, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, pp. 82-83, 1969.
Rademacher, H. and Toeplitz, O. The Enjoyment of Mathematics: Selections from Mathematics for the Amateur.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 124-129, 1957.