Abstract
ALTHOUGH the fundamental ideas of Graphical Methods in Statics can be traced back to the writings of Stevinus, of Bruges (c. 1600), and although they must have been employed by scientific engineers, such as Brunel, the subject of Graphical Statics as known to the mathematician dates only from Maxwell's writings on the subject, and to Culmann's elaborate treatise in German; also to Colonel Sir George Clarke's exhaustive work.
The Elements of Graphic Statics: a Text-Book for Students of Engineering.
By L. M. Hoskins, Professor of Pure and Applied Mechanics in the Leland Stanford Junior University; formerly Professor of Mechanics in the University of Wisconsin. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1892.)
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G. [Book Reviews]. Nature 51, 7–8 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051007b0
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