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Surveying - Early works to 1800
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Geodæsia: or, the art of surveying and measuring of land made easie. Shewing, by plain and practical rules, how to survey, And Measuring of Land Made Easie. Shewing, By Plain and Practical Rules, how to Survey, Protract, Cast up, Reduce or Divide any Piece of Land whatsover; with Now Tables for the ease of the Surveyor in Reducing the Measures of Land. Moreover, A more Facile and Sure Way of Surveying by the Chain, than has hitherto been Taught. AS Also, How 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 yet Publish'd in our Language. By John Love.
Love, John, active 1688.Date: 1715- Books
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Certain ancient tracts concerning the management of landed property reprinted.
Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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An essay on the origin and use of tables of latitude and departure; Particularly, as they are suited to the purposes of land surveying.
Robertson, Abram, 1751-1826.Date: M,DCC,LXX. [1770]- Books
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Geodæsia improved; or, a new and correct method of surveying made exceeding 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 Superficies; and teacheth the invaluable Method of 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. By A. Burns, Teacher of the Mathematics in Tarporley, Cheshire.
Burns, Arthur.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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Bedford Level. The account of Mr. John Drage, receiver and expenditor general for the north level, under the care of William Slater officer thereof, from Lady-day, 1751, to Christmas following.
Bedford Level Corporation.Date: 1752]