Abstract:The second half of the 19th century saw a very quick diffusion of graphical statics. Lectures on graphical statics were given in Switzerland (Zurich); in Germany (Berlin, Munich, Darmstadt, Dresden); in the Baltic regions (Riga); in the Austrian-Hungarian empire (Vienna, Prague, Gratz, Brunn); in the United States; in Denmark. The author that mainly developed its techniques was the German scholar Carl Culmann, who placed graphical statics besides the newborn projective geometry. Culmann's approach was enthusia… Show more
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