<s id="A18-1.16.01">[16] The figure that is similar to the known one and is in a given ratio to it we have designed in the place where it is itself and where we want to construct the one similar to it.</s>
<s id="A18-1.16.02">If one is, however, supposed to draw the figure that is to be found, not in that place but in another one, wherever its constructor wants to have it, then one does the following.</s>
<s id="A18-1.16.03">Let the figure similar to the known one be the figure <abgdez> and let the place to which we want to transfer it be the vicinity of the point <h>.</s>
<s id="A18-1.16.04">Let us assume inside of figure <abgdez> any point, the point <q>, and let us describe around the two points <h> and <q> two equal circles in the plane and divide them at the points <klmnco> and <pxsstt'> into equal parts, let us connect the dividing points with the centers and make the lines starting from point <h> equal to those in figure <abgdez>; let the line <ak> be equal to line <xd'>, line <lb> equal to line <sf'>, <mg> equal to line <sy>, <nd> equal to line <tf>, <ce> equal to line <t'q'> and <oz> to line <ph'>.</s>
<s id="A18-1.16.05">If we further draw lines through the points <h'd'f'yfq'> and the points similar to them, then, when we divide the same circles around the centers <h> and <q> into more parts, the line drawn will be the more correct and certain, since the points lie closer to one another.</s>
<s id="A18-1.16.06">If we now draw the line <h'd'f'yfq'>, then this line and line <abgdez> will be congruent, because the congruent figures correspond to each other.</s>
