THE objection to Duchayla's proof of the “parallelogram of forces” is, I suppose, admitted by all mathematicians. To base the fundamental principle of the equilibrium of a particle on the ...
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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 ...