Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Geometrical and Graphical Essays, Containing, a General Description of the Mathematical Instruments Used in Geometry, Civil and Military Surveying, Levelling and Perspective, 1803: With Many New Practical Problems
Our next article treats of surveying, and it is presumed the reader will find it a complete, though concise system thereof. The several instruments now in use, and the methods of adjusting them, are described in order; and I think it will appear evi dent, froma View of those of the best-construction, that large estates may be surveyed and plotted with greater accuracy than heretofore.
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