A treatise on practical mensuration :
in ten parts : containing the most approved methods of drawing geometrical figures; mensuration of superficies; land-surveying; mensuration of solids; the use of the carpenter's rule; timber measure, in which is shown the method of measuring and valuing standing timber; artificers' works, illustrated by the dimensions and contents of a house; mensuration of haystacks, drains, canals, marlpits, ponds, mill-dams, embankments, quarries, coal-heaps, and clay-heaps; conic sections and their solids; the most useful problems in gauging, according to the new imperial measures; plane trigonometry, with its application to the mensuration of heights and distances; trigonometrical surveys; and a dictionary of the terms used in architecture /
by A. Nesbit, master of the Classical, Commercial, and Mathematical Academy, Kennington Lane, Lambeth, London; and author of "A treatise on practical arithmetic" ...
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- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, 1850
- Edition
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New edition, enlarged and greatly improved, to which is added a treatise on levelling.
- Note
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Acquisition made accessible thanks to the generous support of the Frederick J. and Margret L. Worden Endowment.
Inscribed "Mr. C. Boon his // Whittlesea // April 14th 1852" on front fly-leaf verso.
Advertisements for "School books published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co." on front and rear end papers.
Signatures: A-T¹² U⁶.
Price below imprint: "Price six shillings, bound."
"The whole illustrated by nearly seven hundred practical examples, and nearly three hundred woodcuts."
- Physical Description
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xxiv, 443, [1] pages :
illustrations ;
18 cm
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