A treatise of practical surveying, which is demonstrated from its first principles :
wherein every thing that is useful and curious in that art, is fully considered and explained : particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the areas of right-lined figures, arithmetically or by calculation, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of : the whole illustrated by Copper-plates /
by Robert Gibson ; with alterations and amendments adapted to the use of American surveyors.

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Main Author

Gibson, Robert, -1761?

Related Names

Gibson, Robert, -1761?.

Language(s)

English

Published

Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Joseph & James Crukshank, 1803.

Edition

8th ed.

Subjects

Surveying > Surveying / Tables.
Surveying > Surveying / Early works to 1800.

Note

Tables of difference of latitude and departure. Carefully rev. and corr. Philadelphia : Joseph & James Crukshank, 1803: 152 p. at end has special t.p.

Physical Description

viii, 288, 152 p., 13 leaves of plates ; 23 cm.

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