AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRESENT PRACTICE OF SURVEYING AND LEVELLING
Published by E. & F.N. Spon
in 1859
- Categorised in:
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- SURVEYING
- ANTIQUARIAN
- SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRESENT PRACTICE OF SURVEYING AND LEVELLING
Stock no. 985220
1859.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
A Plain Explanation of the Subject and of the Instruments Employed Together With Suitable Plans, Sections and Diagrams also Original Finished Engravings of the Field Instruments. First edition. Pages: viii, 162 + plates. Original blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering. 9 folding plates at rear. Covers unevenly faded. Text block browned. A few scattered foxspots to contents. A few grubby margin marks present.Endpapers grubby.
Front cover
Contents
- CHAPTER I. ON SURVEYING:
- First Principle of Land Surveying
- On the Practice of Surveying:
- I. On the Method of Measuring the Distances on the Ground
- II. On the Mode of Keeping the Field-Book or Noting the Distances in the Field
- III. On the Mode of Plotting the Measured Distances
- IV. The Rules for Computing the Contents of Fields and other Enclosures
- V. Some Further Remarks and Directions Concerning Surveying
- CHAPTER II. ON LEVELLING:
- On the Practice of Levelling
- CHAPTER III. ON THE INSTRUMENTS USED IN SURVEYING AND LEVELLING
- APPENDIX. A GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN ARITHMETIC, WITH RULES AND EXAMPLES