Desargues configurations and their collineation groups

Abstract

When two triangles, ABC and A′B′C′, are perspective from a point 0, their pairs of corresponding sides meet on a line 0, the axis of perspective. The line OA passes through A′ and some point on 0. These four points have a certain cross ratio which is the same if B or C is used instead of A. The reciprocal cross ratio arises if A′B′C′ is regarded as the first triangle and ABC the second. The complete figure contains ten pairs of perspective triangles, yielding twenty cross ratios. In section 6 a technique, suggested by D. W. Babbage and John Rigby, is used to express these cross ratios in the form