The Artisan, or, Mechanic's instructor : containing a popular, comprehensive and systematic view of the following sciences ... also biographical notices of eminent scientific men, enriched by portraits : with many interesting and valuable articles relating to the mechanical and useful arts : the whole intended as a companion to the institutes (1825)
Carey, George G · London : Printed for William Cole · leaf 65
alent to them all. For the two lines The force A D may therefore be resolved D B and B C are equivalent to D C; also, into as many pairs of forces as there can be D C and C A, that is, D B, B C, and C A, triangles described upon AD, or paral- are equivalent to D A ; in the same man- lelograms about… … the power of gravity, and it affects all represent the quantities and directions of falling bodies in an equal degree ; that is, two forces, and if A E be drawn to bisect e 2
