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 it only has been rendered impossible by the addition of the

third restraining point.

If c be so placed that its normal passes through both halves

of the field of turning (Fig. 69), the triangle POQ falls in the

field of restraint of a and b instead of in their field of turning. The parts bO PC and c' Q b' are each covered by a pair of dissimilar fields, and only the parts c P a' and c QOa remain as fields of right- and left-handed turning re- spectively.

If the third point of re- straint be so placed that its normal makes a smaller angle than 180 with those next it, as in Fig. 70, the result is If the normal to c then pass (as shown

in the figure), through the original field of right-handed turning, its

R. H. field entirely covers the L. H. one a b' } and its left-handed

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widely different.

Fio. 70.

. 69.

one the portion a' P Q b of the right-handed field a' b, so that turning about points in both these areas is prevented. The triangle POQ only is covered by a pair of similar fields, so that in it alone turning, and right-handed turning only, is possible. If c had