Practical plane and solid geometry for advanced students, including graphic statics, adapted to the requirements of the South Kensington syllabus (1899)
Harrison, Joseph, Baxandall, George Albert · London Macmillan · leaf 56
hape, are given, and a third figure has to be deter-mined, such that it is similar to one of the given figures and equalin area to the other. This is the type of problem. The data ofthe problem may be varied considerably, in so far that two triangles,rectangles, squares, etc., or any combination of… … Such observations should render it unnecessary to explain in detailthe solutions of further problems of the same kind, such as theexamples below. It may here be remarked that the student should acquire thehabit of closely observing the type of any problem which comes underhis consideration, and…
