SOLID GEOMETRY • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Solid geometry

... at the present time to write a book along such lines which shall be of much use for elementary students. For the purposes of this course the student should have a thorough grounding in ordinary elementary geometry so far as to include the study of the circle and of similar triangles. No solid geometry is needed beyond the little used in the proof of Desargues' theorem (25), and, except in certain metrical developments of the general theory, there will be no call for a knowledge of trigonometry or analytical geometry. ...

— An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry • Lehmer, Derrick Norman