The practical surveyor

Wyld, Samuel

The practical surveyor or the art of land-measuring made easy. Shewing, by plain and familiar Rules, how to Survey any Piece of Land whatsoever, by the Plain-Table, Theodolite, or Circumferentor: or, by the Chain only. And how to Protract, Cast up, Reduce and Divide the same. Likewise. An easy Method of Protracting Observations made with the Meridian; and how to cast up the Content of any Plot of Land, by Reducing any Multangular Figure to one Triangle. To which is added, an appendix. Shewing how to draw buildings, &c. in Perspective: Of Levelling; and also how to Measure standing Timber. By Samuel Wyld. - The fifth edition. Corrected and enlarged by a careful hand: and illustrated with several copper-plates - London printed for W. Johnston in Ludgate-Street MDCCLXIV. [1764] - viii, 191, [1] p., plates 8o


Great Britain--1707-