With compass and chain : early American surveyors and their instruments.

Bedini, S.

With compass and chain : early American surveyors and their instruments. - USA Professional Surveyors Publishing Company Inc. 2001 - xxvii, 774p. ; 25cm.

This book charts the history of "the little men of science", surveyors, cartographers and navigators who helped to forge the British Colonies in North America into a new republic.

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SURVEYORS
SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS
HISTORY
AMERICA
CARTOGRAPHY
LAND SURVEYORS
MAPPING

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