A treatise on land-surveying, in six parts. Part I. Contains Definitions and Problems in Geometry. Part II. Rules for finding the Content of Land without using a Chain, but by stepping the dimensions, by which any Husbandman who knows the first five Rules of Arithmetic may find the Content of his own work. Part III. To survey with the Chain and Cross. Part IV. To survey with the Chain only. Part V. Rules for parting off any given portion of a Field, in form of a Triangle, Square or Parallelogram. Part VI. A full explanation of the method used by the most eminent Surveyors, in measuring and planning a Farm or a Lordship, with a Chain only. Illustrated with Five Copper-Plates, and an engraved Fac-Simile of a Field-Book. The Plates exhibit the progressive steps of planning a small Farm, and point out the appearances of the Plan in six different Stages. By Thomas Dix, of Oundle. The whole illustrated with one hundred and eighty diagrams, and ten copper-plates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dix, Thomas, 1769 or 70-1813.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surveying.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 193, [1] p., plates ) ill.,map ;

Other Title:

Treatise on land-surveying,

Place of Publication:

London : printed by H. Baldwin and Son, New Bridge-Street, for L. B. Seeley, Ave-Maria-Lane; J. Seeley, Buckingham; and the author at Oundle, 1799.

Notes:

With 14 pages of engraved "Notes for the four fields, plate the fifth" at the end.

At bottom of title page in square brackets: entered at Stationers' Hall.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T114234.

OCLC:

642290367