The new art of land measuring; or, a turnpike road to practical surveying : Leading to a new and exact Method of Measuring and Maping of Lands, Woods, Waters, &c. by the Catoptric Sextant, and to cast up the same by the Pen only. Also, To many new Discoveries in Laying Out, Dividing, and Reducing of Land. To Levelling for the Conveyance of Water, either in Pipes or open Canals: together with an appendix, containing a new theory of the catoptric sextant, and its farther use, In an entire new Method of taking Heights and Distances, independent of Trigonometry: also, Measuring of Standing Timber. To which are added, Several new and useful Tables. The whole illustrated with copper-plates. By B. Talbot, of the Mathematics at Cannock.
- Talbot, Benjamin.
- Date:
- MDCCLXXIX. [1779]
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Wolverhampton : printed for the author, and sold by J. Smart. Sold also by T. Lowndes, Fleet-Street, London; Messirs. Pearson and Rollason, Birmingham; and by all other booksellers, MDCCLXXIX. [1779]
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[2],xxiii,[1],412p.,plates,table ; 80.
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ESTC T121394
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