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 | | These rules are sometimes dignified by the name of laws of nature, but they have ~relation to our present state of knowledge and to the degree of skill with which we have succeeded in giving more or less compact expression to it. |
 | | Successive halfturns about intersecting axes a, b are equivalent to a rotation about the common perpendicular to a, b at their intersection, Of amount equal to twice the acute angle between them, in the direction from a to b. |
 | | Successive half-turns about two skew axes a, b are equivalent to a twist about a screw whose axis is the common perpendicular to a, b, the translation being double the shortest distance, and the angle of rotation being twice the acute angle between a, b, in the direction from a to b. |
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