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THE author has already written an excellent book on geometrical statics, and it has been his present object to produce an elementary treatise which shall cover the well-trodden ground of the ...

THIS book consists of a set of graduated exercises in graphical statics. The first seventy, about half the total number, are restricted to problems on the equi librium of three forces at a point, and ...