Geodaesia: or, The art of surveying, and measuring land made easy : Shewing by plain and practical rules, to survey, protract, cast up, reduce or divide any piece of land whatsoever; with new tables for the ease of the surveyor in reducing the measure of land, : moreover a more facile and sure way of surveying by the chain, than has hitherto been taught. : As also to lay out new lands in America, or elsewhere: and how to make a perfect map of a river's mouth or harbour; with several other things never before published in our language. /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The twelfth edition, adapted to American surveyors. |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 25731. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | "A table of the northing or southing, easting or westing, of every degree from the meridian, to the number of chains run upon any degree."--pages [190-205]. "The use of the foregoing table."--pages 1-3, 4th count. "A table of sines and tangents to every fifth minute of the quadrant."-- [24] pages, 5th count. "A table of logarithm numbers."--pages [25-35], 5th count. "An appendix, shewing farther how to survey by the chain only: with an useful table to that purpose."-- 7, [1] pages at end. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 17 unnumbered pages, 10-189 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 3 pages, 36 unnumbered pages, 7 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 21 cm. (octavo) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- New York -- New York. |