Geodaesia [electronic resource] : 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 the English language. By John Love.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Love, John, fl. 1688.

Contributor:

Campbell, Samuel, 1765-1836, printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logarithms--Tables.

Logarithms.

Surveying.

Surveying--Tables.

Trigonometry--Tables.

Trigonometry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([17],10-189,[16],3,[36],7,[1]p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

The thirteenth edition, adapted to American surveyors.

Other Title:

Geodaesia

Place of Publication:

New-York : Printed and sold by Samuel Campbell, 124 Pearl-Street, 1796.

Notes:

"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.

Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".

Cited in:

Evans, 30704

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2384

English Short Title Catalog, W12393.

OCLC:

510972015