A treatise of practical surveying : which is demonstrated from its first principles. Wherein every thing that is useful and curious in that art, is fully considered and explained. Particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the areas of right-lined figures arithmetically, or by calculation, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of. : The whole illustrated with copper-plates. / By Robert Gibson, teacher of the mathematics. ; With alterations and amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Robert, -1761?, author.

Contributor:

Poupard, James, engraver.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19026.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surveying.

Surveying--Tables.

Genre:

Tables.

Tables (Data)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 272 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 90 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 12 folded leaves of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

The fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street between Second and Third-Streets., MDCCLXXXV. [1785]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Edition statement transposed; precedes "By Robert Gibson ..." on title page.

Plates engraved by James Poupard.

"Tables of difference of latitude and departure ..."--[1], 90, [1] pages at end, with separate title page. Odd numbered pages printed on versos. Attributed to John Robertson.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 19026).

Cited in:

Evans 19026

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2371

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