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Geodæsia: 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. By John Love.
Love, John, active 1688.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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The whole art of surveying 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 whatsoever; with New Tables for the Ease of the Surveyor in Reducing the Measures of Land. Moreover, A more Easie 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; 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: MDCCXVI. [1716]- Books
The principles of surveying / [James Clendinning].
Clendinning, James, 1888-Date: [1960]- Books
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A complete treatise on practical mathematics: including the nature and use of mathematical instruments: logarithmic tables. Trigonometry. Mensuration of Heights and Distances. - of Surfacfs & Solids. Land-Surveying. Gunnery. Gauging. Artificer's Measuring. Miscellaneous Exercises. With an Appendix on Algebra. The whole Conducted on the Most Approved Plan, with Proper Rules, and a Variety of Suitable Examples to Each Rule. Principally designed for the use of Schools and Academies. By John Macgregor, Teacher of Mathematics, Edinburgh.
M'Gregor, John, teacher of Mathematics.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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The compleat surveyor: or, the whole art of surveying of land, by a new instrument lately invented; As also by the Plain Table, Circumferentor, the Theodolite as now improv'd, or by the Chain only. Containing plain and easy directions in several kinds of mensurations, and Other Things necessary to be known in a Work of this Nature. By William Leybourn. The whole altered and amended, and Two entire Books added by the Author long before his Death. The fifth edition, in IX books. Every Operation both Geometrical & Arithmetical being examin'd, and an appendix Added to the Whole, Consisting of Practical Observations in Land Surveying, by Samuel Cunn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: 1722- Pictures
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Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.
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Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.
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Precision site surveying and setting-out / [Gordon Tomalin].
Tomalin, Gordon.Date: [1964]- Books
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Tables of difference of latitude and departure for navigators, Land Surveyors, &c. with their application to plane trigonometry, And their Use in plotting and calculating surveys, Which perfects the House-Work of that Art. To which is prefixed, An Account of the Diurnal Variation of the Magnetic Needle, the Error thence arising and its Correction; the Use of a new Surveying Instrument, &c. Being great Improvements of the Field-Work. The Whole almost Entirely New. Compiled at the Instance of a Committee of the Dublin Society, By John Hood, Land Surveyor.
Hood, John, 1720-1783.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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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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The universal arithmetic, containing all the rules in arithmetic, After a New and most Concise Method; Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, the Square and Cube Roots, With a brief Explanation of their Use; Mensuration and Surveying: to Which are Added, A great Variety of Practical Questions, &c. The Whole Scientifically laid down in a plain and easy Manner, for the Use of Schools,-Private Families, and the Rising Generation in general. By R. Chappell, late T. M. St. Mary-le-Bone, London.
Chappell, Richard, teacher of arithmetic.Date: 1798- Books
Manual for surveying national scientific and technological potential.
Unesco.Date: 1990- Books
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Geodæsia Hibernica: or an essay on practical surveying. Which contains the following useful improvements. I. Protroction without parallels, &c. II. A Description of a new Instrument, by which any Gentleman, tho' unskill'd in Surveying, may measure a Map, or Part of a Map, almost in one View. III. Different Methods for correcting Surveys, and fitting them for Calculation. IV. A New Method and Plan of Calculation, proposed to Practitioners, to give in return with their Surveys. V. A new Set of Tables, in which may be found, by Inspection only, the Difference of Latitude, and Departure, for a Station of any Length and Bearing that may happen in Practice. By Benjamin Noble.
Noble, Benjamin, active 1764-1809.Date: [1768]- Books
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Essay on the most commodious methods of marine surveying.
Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737-1808.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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Arithmetick and measurement, improv'd by examples and plain demonstrations: wherein are laid down the different customary perches, and other measures, used in the several Parts of Great-Britain and Ireland. Suitable to all Artists; But more especially those who are employed in Building, Gardening, Surveying Land, &c. To which is added, The Use of an Instrument call'd a Tangent Rule, for the taking any given Distance within a Quarter of a Mile. Revised, corrected, and improved, by William Davidson, Architect and Land Surveyor.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: [1779?]- Books
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Essay on nautical surveying. by A Dalrymple. Originally published in 1771.
Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737-1808.Date: 1786- Books
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The description and use of a new much-improved sinical quadrant, whereby, A Person knowing Addition and Subtraction only, may learn, in Six Hours, to allow for Variation and Lee-Way, &c. Also, determine the Longitude at Sea, and keep a regular Journal of a Voyage to any Part of the World. This Instrument is equally useful in Altimetry, Surveying, &c. for taking Altitudes, and determining right angled Triangles. Invented by John Adams, at the Academy, In Brook-Street, Ratcliff; And Made by Richard Rust, Mathematical-Instrument-Maker, St. Catherine's, London.
Adams, John, approximately 1730-approximately 1800.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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A treatise of such mathematical instruments, as are usually put into a portable case. Shewing some of their uses in arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, spherics, Architecture, Surveying, Geography, Perspective, &c. with an Appendix; Containing The Description and Use of the Gunners Callipers. And The Description of, and Precepts for the Delineation of, Ship-Guns and Sea Mortars. To this Treatise, is prefixed A Brief Account of Authors, who have wrote on the Proportional Compasses and Sector. The third edition, with many additions. By John Robertson, Librarian to the Royal Society.
Robertson, J. (John), 1712-1776.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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Practical geodesy : comprising chain surveying and the use of surveying instruments, levelling and tracing of contours, together with sanitary surveys of towns, trigonometrical, colonial, mining and maritime surveying / by J. Butler Williams.
Williams, J. Butler (James Butler), Sir.Date: 1855- Archives and manuscripts
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'Dept 7, 4 - surveying, oceanography, maths'
Date: 1980-1982Reference: WA/HMM/TR/Abc/B.3/16Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
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Mathematicks made plain, In the Solution of Variety Of Useful Propositions in Arithmetick. Interest, Simple and Compound. Geometry. Surveying. Gauging. Measuring all Artificers Works. Trigonometry, Plain and Spherical. Astronomy. Geography. Navigation. Dialling. Chronology. Dioptricks. Staticks. Gunnery. Military Fortification. Civil and Naval Architecture. Mechanick Powers. Automaticks, or Clock-Work, &c. All Perform'd by that Excellent Line of Numbers, commonly call'd Gunter's-Line. Being A necessary Companion for Gentlemen, Military Officers, Engineers, Architects, Seamen, Surveyors, Usurers, Shopkeepers of all sorts; Artificers, as Masons, Bricklayers, Carpenters, Shipwrights, Watch-Makers, Glaziers, Painters, Plaisterers, &c. By Richard Neve, Philomath. Approv'd of by the Royal Society.
Neve, Richard.Date: 1708- Books
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The trader's pocket companion: containing, correct tables, ready calculated, of universal use to merchants, shopkeepers, mechanicks, and to all other persons in any kind of business, viz. A Table calculated to shew, at one View, the Value of any Quantity of Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, at any Price, adapted to all Capacities; and its particular, general, and extensive Use, shewn by many and various Examples. A Table of universal Use, demonstrated by the Solution of various Questions in Multiplication, Division, Reduction, Merchandising, measuring Superficies and Solids, Gauging, Surveying, &c. Twenty-Five Geometrical Problems, with their assigned Figures, applied to Measuring, Gauging, Surveying, &c. A Table calculated to discover, at one View, the different Discompts upon any of the Branches of the Customs, upon imported Goods, from one Farthing upwards. A Table for the more easy reckoning Salaries or Wages, by discovering, at one View, what any yearly Salary, Wages, or Estate, amounts to by the Month, Week, or Day; and, contrary, what any daily Salary amounts to by the Week, Month, or Year. A Table for casting up Interest at any Rate, for any Number of Days. By John Hewitt, Accomptant, Author of the Tables of Simple Interest, Corn-Dealer's Assistant, &c.
Hewitt, John.Date: 1760- Books
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The trader's pocket companion: containing, correct tables, ready calculated, of universal use to merchants, shopkeepers, mechanicks, and to all other persons in any kind of business. A Table calculated, to shew at one View, the Value of any Quantity of Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, at any Price, adapted to all Capacities: and its particular, general, and extensive Use, shewn by many, and various Examples. A Table of universal Use, demonstrated, by the Solution of various Questions in Multiplication, Division, Reduction, Merchandising, measuring Superficies and Solids, Ganging, Surveying, &c. Twenty-Five Geometrical Problems, with their assigned Figures, applied to Measuring, Gauging, Surveying, &c. A Table calculated, to discover at one View, the different Discompts upon any of the Branches of the Customs, upon imported Goods, from one Farthing upwards. A Table for the more easy reckoning Salaries or Wages, by discovering, at one View, what any yearly Salary, Wages, or Estate, amounts to, by the Month, Week, or Day: and contrary, what any daily Salary amounts to by the Week, Month, or Year. A Table for casting up Interest at any Rate, for any Number of Days. The Rates and Fares of Coachmen, Carmen, and Watermen, with their Rules and Restrictions. By John Hewitt, Accomptant: Author of the Tables of Simple Interest, Corn Dealer's Assistant, &c.
Hewitt, John.Date: [1738]- Books
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A dissertation on the practice of land-surveying in Ireland: And an essay towards a general regulation therein. In two parts. By Peter Callan, student and practitioner in the art of surveying.
Callan, Peter.Date: February the 20th, 1758- Books
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Geodæsia: or, the art of surveying and measuring of land made easy. ... By John Love.
Love, John, active 1688.Date: 1753