The practical surveyor, or the art of land-measuring made easy; shewing, by plain and familiar rules, how to survey any piece of land whatsoever, by the Plain-Table, Theodolite, or Circumferentor: or, by the Chain only. And how to Protract, Cast up, Reduce, and Divide the same. Likewise An easy Method of Protracting Observations made with the Meridian; and how to cast up the Content of any Plot of Land, by Reducing any Multangular Figure to one Triangle. To which is added, an appendix; shewing how to draw buildings, &c. in Perspective: Of Levelling; and also how to Measure standing Timber. By Samuel Wyld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyld, Samuel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surveying--Early works to 1800.

Surveying.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii,191,[1]p.,plates )

Edition:

The seventh edition. Corrected and enlarged by a careful hand, and illustrated with several copper-plates.

Other Title:

Practical surveyor,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for T. Caslon, Stationers-Court; G. Robinson, J. Bew, and R. Baldwin, Pater-Noster Row, M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]

Notes:

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T109914.

OCLC:

642275479