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Geodaesia: 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. /
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| Format: | Online Book |
| Language: | English |
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New-York: :
Printed and sold by Samuel Campbell, no 37, Hanover Square.,
M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]
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| Edition: | The twelfth edition, adapted to American surveyors. |
| Series: | Early American imprints.
no. 25731. |
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| Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
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| Item Description: | "A table of the northing or southing, easting or westing, of every degree from the meridian, to the number of chains run upon any degree."--p. [190-205]. "The use of the foregoing table."--p. 1-3, 4th count "A table of sines and tangents to every fifth minute of the quadrant."-- [24] p., 5th count. "A table of logarithm numbers."--p. [25-35], 5th count. "An appendix, shewing farther how to survey by the chain only: with an useful table to that purpose."-- 7, [1] p. at end. |
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| Physical Description: | [17], 10-189, [16], 3, [36], 7, [1] p. : ill. ; 21 cm. (8vo) |
| Access: | Electronic access restricted to Villanova University patrons. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- New York -- New York. |