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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hood, John, 1720-1783.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surveying--Tables.

Surveying.

Latitude--1772--Tables.

Latitude.

Longitude--1772--Tables.

Longitude.

Surveying--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Tables.

Tables (Data)

Physical Description:

19,2,2 pages, 91 unnumbered pages,plate ; 4⁰

Place of Publication:

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]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

'A survey of Moyle-Moss, .. ' has duplicate pagination.

The tables have a separate register and are unpaginated.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T63987.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.