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.
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- MDCCLXXII. [1772]
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Dublin : printed and sold by William Sleater in Castle-Street, for the author; and also sold by Edward Spicer and James Lynch, Mathemaitcal Instrument Makers; where may be had the Chequered Paper and Compass Theodolite, mentioned in this Book, and all other Instruments for Surveyors, Navigators, &c, MDCCLXXII. [1772]
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19,2,2,[91]p.,plate ; 40.
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ESTC T63987
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