Weighted wheel and a rosette of overlapping circles
Keeping a ball on the wheel's central line, with a flower-of-life circle pattern
A large wheel with radial spokes and small balls dominates the sheet, accompanied at upper right by a rosette of seven overlapping circles (the 'flower of life'). The note argues that the ball f must never carry the centre of its gravity off the wheel's central line, so that as the wheel turns the ball is lifted from g to f and from f to b, concluding that all the balls in the world placed at f cannot act as a counter-lever to b g. A marginal fragment is labelled 'a quarter of a circle'. These are again perpetual-motion studies of weights within a turning wheel.
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Ball kept on the wheel's central line
The ball f must never have the centre of its gravity outside the centre and central line of the wheel. As the wheel moves from g to m the ball is carried up from g to f, and moving above from n to b it is carried from f to b; and all the balls in the world placed at f make no counter-lever to b g. Letters n, b, f and the numbers 11, 22 mark the positions.
Rosette of seven overlapping circles
At the upper right a rosette of seven equal circles overlaps to form the six-petalled pattern often called the flower of life. It is a purely geometric construction and is not addressed in the transcribed notes.
Marginal quarter circle
A mutilated figure at the right margin is labelled 'a quarter of a circle'. Only the caption survives in the transcription.