In a second little volume, "Die geometrischen Constructionen ausgeführt mittels der geraden Linie und eines festen Kreises" (1833), republished in 1895 by Ottingen, he shows, what had been already suggested by J. V. Poncelet, how all problems of the second order can be solved by aid of the straight edge alone without the use of compasses, as soon as one circle is given on the drawing-paper.