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 multangular 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. By Samuel Wyld
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
Printed for H. Lintot, at the Cross-Keys, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street
1737, [1730?]
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Edition: | The second edition: corrected and enlarged by a careful hand |
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Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, T109954. - Goldsmiths', 6748. - Price in square brackets: (Price Three Shillings.). - Reproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library. - The ornaments are those used by Henry Woodfall. - The work is listed in 'The monthly catalogue' for July 1737 and in 'The gentleman's magazine'. - With two final leaves of tables |
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Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (viii,188,[4]p.,6 plates) 8° |