Definition:Mascheroni Construction

Definition

A Mascheroni construction is a geometric construction whose only tool is the compasses.

Also see

• Mohr-Mascheroni Theorem

• Results about Mascheroni constructions can be found here.

Source of Name

This entry was named for Lorenzo Mascheroni.

Historical Note

The compass-only Euclidean constructions now known as Mascheroni constructions are named for Lorenzo Mascheroni.

However, this technique had already been invented by Georg Mohr, who published it in his Euclides Danicus in $1672$.

This fact only came to general light in $1928$, when the latter work was rediscovered.

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): construction
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Mascheroni, Lorenzo (1750-1800)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): construction
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Mascheroni, Lorenzo (1750-1800)