GEODAESIA IMPROVED; OR, A NEW AND CORRECT METHOD OF SURVEYING MADE EXCEEDINGLY EASY.; In Two Parts. Part I, Teacheth to measure, divide, and delineate, any Quantity of Land both accessible and inaccessible, whether Meadows, Pasture, Fields, Woods, Water, , Commons, Forests, Manors, &c. by the CHAIN ONLY, whose Dimensions are cast up by the PEN, and consequently freed from the ERRORS of ESTIMATION that unavoidably attend the Scale and Protractor. With necessary Directions to MAP elegantly. Part II, Introduces Instruments, Trigonometry, preparative Remarks on the Earth's Superfices; and teacheth the invaluable Methodof casting up the Dimensions of Instruments by the PEN several Ways, all agreeing, &c. &c. : With a MOST USEFUL APPENDIX Concerning the practical Methods of measuring Timber, Hay, Marl Pits, Bricklayers and Plaisterers Work. The whole being illustrated with proper Definitions, Problems, Rules, Examples, Explanations, and emblematical Types, rendered uncommonly easy
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Chester, England: J. Poole, 1771. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Octavo, 8.3 in. x 5.3 in., pp. [7] (subscribers], x, 353, [2] (advertising/errata). Illustrated with many line drawings and five fold-out plates. Rebound in caramel cloth boards. Gilt title on black label, and five raised bands with gilt bandlines, to spine. Publisher's red to edges. Newer endpapers. Bookbinder's sticker to rear pastedown. Age-toning to pages with a few scattered spots. Unmarked interior. With a preliminary leaf of verse signed: Thomas Sadler, a list of subscribers and a final errata leaf.
Arthur Burns of Tarpoley, Cheshire, kept a boys' school, where the whole range of practical math skills was emphasized.
Arthur Burns of Tarpoley, Cheshire, kept a boys' school, where the whole range of practical math skills was emphasized.
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- GEODAESIA IMPROVED; OR, A NEW AND CORRECT METHOD OF SURVEYING MADE EXCEEDINGLY EASY.; In Two Parts. Part I, Teacheth to measure, divide, and delineate, any Quantity of Land both accessible and inaccessible, whether Meadows, Pasture, Fields, Woods, Water, , Commons, Forests, Manors, &c. by the CHAIN ONLY, whose Dimensions are cast up by the PEN, and consequently freed from the ERRORS of ESTIMATION that unavoidably attend the Scale and Protractor. With necessary Directions to MAP elegantly. Part II, Introduces Instruments, Trigonometry, preparative Remarks on the Earth's Superfices; and teacheth the invaluable Methodof casting up the Dimensions of Instruments by the PEN several Ways, all agreeing, &c. &c. : With a MOST USEFUL APPENDIX Concerning the practical Methods of measuring Timber, Hay, Marl Pits, Bricklayers and Plaisterers Work. The whole being illustrated with proper Definitions, Problems, Rules, Examples, Explanations, and emblematical Types, rendered uncommonly easy
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- Burns, A
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- J. Poole
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- Chester, England
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- 1771
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