MAW NI = DRAGON PEARLS
The following is the translation of the ming paragraph headings in
Dragon Pearls which represents a table of contents of the book by
CFR. You can click on the numbers which will take you to the Ming Translator if you don't like my interpretation. Note in the book itself there are references to the Tai Shu which is a privately published set of documents where the material was originally developed & published to a limited circle of friends.
This book is the first in the projective geometry series of 18 & was published on January 17, 1955.
The subject of this book is all about the geometry of tangents . The other subjects covered in the process are: inversion, polar coordinates, Affine & Euclidean drawings, centroids, & vectors.
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| 0 | Introduction - Condensed rules to make tangents |
| 1 | Circle Construct |
| 2 | Polar Involution make tangent |
| 3 | Five angle rule is rudicible Pascalia way to make tangent |
| 4 | Triangle construct |
| 5 | Conjugate point way |
| 6 | Working Design |
| 7 | Tangent from outside point to a conic |
| 8 | Fluxion - Differential coefficient = tangent |
| 9 | Inverted affine Hjelmslev example |
| 10 | Ellipse curvature circle |
| 11 | Three degree rule |
| 12 | Arithmetic design (may be a key to CFR's calculating circle invention) |
| 13 | 3D unity formula |
| 14 | Regulus rule |
| 15 | Two 4-point fixed point opposite geometric plane project |
| 16 | Complete 3D five point geometric surface secant rule |
| 17 | Polar condition conic |
| 18 | Centroids |
| 19 | Harmonic Centroid forumula |
| 20 | Reducible hyperbola vector condition |
| 21 | Euclidean Affine circle tangent |
| 22 | Euclidean & Affine circle root tangent straight line rule |
| 23 | Finite Circles cross |
| 24 | Function corresponding 5-star rule - divine equal parts |
| 25 | Euclidean/Affine ellipse by Circle Focus condition |
| 26 | Make polar case conic reach two perspective triangle |
| 27 | Two imaginary fixed elliptic involution double point intersection |
| 28 | Gage rule conic |
| 29 | Small inversion path to join two points |
| 30 | Affine rectangular (..way) to make new conic element bring self duality |
| 31 | Within triangle conic mates with circle focus (circle inscribed in a triangle) |
| 32 | Center perspective rule |
| 33 | Five point projection to make conic |
| 34 | Wind 3D kite tower pagoda way to construct vector |