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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
In the preface to his Principles of Geometry, Professor Baker states that the “Foundations” volume “assumes only those relations of position, for points, lines and planes, which, furnished with a pencil, some rods and some string, a student may learn by drawing diagrams and making models.” When the beginner attempts to make these diagrams, it is not unusual for one or more points to go off the page. To illustrate how, in an important set of cases, it is possible to get all of the diagram on the page at the first trial is the purpose of this note.
In his article on “Konfigurationen” in the Encyklopädie Steinitz assigns the name “Cayley” to configurations of the type mentioned, hecauae Cayley published a discussion of them in Creile(1845).
* In his article on “Konfigurationen” in the Encyklopädie Steinitz assigns the name “Cayley” to configurations of the type mentioned, hecauae Cayley published a discussion of them in Creile(1845).