The cycloid is the locus of a point on the rim of a circleof radius 
rolling along a
straight line. It was studied and named by Galileo in 1599.
Galileo attempted to find the by weighing pieces of
metal cut into the shape of the cycloid. Torricelli, Fermat, and Descartes all found
the area. The cycloid was also studied by Roberval in 1634,
Wren in 1658, Huygens in 1673, and Johann Bernoulli in 1696. Roberval and Wren found
the (MacTutor Archive). Gear teeth were
also made out of cycloids, as first proposed by Desargues in the 1630s (Cundy and
Rollett 1989).
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rolling along a
straight line. It was studied and named by Galileo in 1599.
Galileo attempted to find the by weighing pieces of
metal cut into the shape of the cycloid. Torricelli, Fermat, and Descartes all found
the area. The cycloid was also studied by Roberval in 1634,
Wren in 1658, Huygens in 1673, and Johann Bernoulli in 1696. Roberval and Wren found
the (MacTutor Archive). Gear teeth were
also made out of cycloids, as first proposed by Desargues in the 1630s (Cundy and
Rollett 1989).
Click Download
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