The practical surveyor : or, the art of land-measuring made easy. Shewing by plain and familiar rules, how to survey any piece of land whatsoever, by the plain-table, theodolite, or circumserentor; or, by the chain only. And how to protract, cast up, reduce and divide the same. Likewise, an easy method of protracting observations made with the meridian; and how to cast up the content of any plot of land, by reducing any multiangular figure to one triangle. To which is added, an appendix. Shewing how to draw buildings, &c. in perspective: of levelling; and also how to measure standing timber /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
printed for H. Lintot and sold by W. Johnstone, at the Golden-Ball, in St. Paul's Church-yard,
[1769?]
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| Edition: | The third edition : |
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| Item Description: | Head and tail pieces; initials. Last [4] pages: Tables shewing the altitude and diameter of any object ... . |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 188 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of folded plates : frontispiece, illustrations, plates ; 21 cm. |