Surveying improv'd: or, the whole art, both in theory and practice, fully demonstrated. In four parts. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal. II. All Definitions, Theorems, and Problems; with Plain Trigonometry, and whatsoever else is necessary to the Theory of Surveying. III. The Description and Use of Instruments proper to be used in Practical Surveying. IV. How to Measure, Cast up, Plot, or Divide any Parcel of Land; to take inaccessible Heights and Distances; with Surveying Counties, Roads, Rivers, &c. Also to reduce a Plan to a Prospect; and to correct any Survey by Astronomical Calculation; with Directions for making transparent Colours for Maps. To which is added, an appendix concerning levelling and conveying water to any possible Place assign'd. By Henry Wilson.

  • Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741.
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MDCCXXVI. [1726]
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London : printed for J. Batley, at the Dove in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXXVI. [1726]

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[16],319,[1];6[i.e.16]p.,plates ; 80.

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