Surveying improved (Record no. 113512)

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control field L155365
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035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (Sirsi) u155365
041 0# - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wilson, Henry
Dates associated with a name 1673-1741
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Surveying improved
Remainder of title or, the whole art, both in theory and practice, fully demonstrated. In four parts. I. Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal. II. All Definitions, Theorems, and Problems; with Plain Trigonometry, and whatsoever else is useful in the Theory of Surveying. III. The Description and Use of Instruments, necessary in the Practice of Surveying; particularly Gunter's Chain, the Surveying-Wheel, the Theodolite, the Sector, the Circumferentor, the Protractor, the Semicircle, and the Plain-Table; which last, of all others, is esteemed universally useful in every Part of this Art. IV. How to Measure, Cast up, Plot, and Divide Parcels of Land, of what Denomination soever, viz. Meadows, Pastures, Fields, Forests, Woods, Commons, Lordships, Manors, &c. by any one or more of the abovesaid Instruments. Also, to take inaccessible Heights and Distances, with surveying Counties, Roads, Rivers, &c. Likewise to reduce a Plan to a Prospect, and to correct any Survey by Astronomical Calculation: With Directions for making transparent Colours for Maps, &c. With an Appendix concerning Levelling and Conveying of Water to any possible Place assigned. The sixth edition, with additions, illustrated with cuts, &c. and also accurately revised, improved, and augmented. By Henry Wilson, Mathematician. To which is now added, Geodoesia accurata: or, Surveying made Easy by the Chain only. Shewing, How to Measure, Plot, Divide, and Delineate any Parcel of Land, without the Trouble and Charge of any other Instrument but the Chain; with proper Directions for Reducing, Mapping, Colouring, and finding the Content, after an accurate and expeditious Manner. Also, a new essay upon Solids. Shewing how the Dimensions of Timber-Trees, &c. both standing and lying, may be exactly taken, and readily measured various Ways, viz. Vulgarly, Decimally, Duodecimally, Instrumentally, and Tabularly. By William Hume, Philomath.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. printed for J. and F. Rivington, L. Hawes and Co. W. Johnston, T. Longman, S. Crowder, B. Law, and Robinson and Roberts
Date of publication, distribution, etc. MDCCLXIX. [1769]
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent [12], 554, [2] p., plates
Dimensions 8o
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The additions by Hume have separate titlepages; register and pagination are continuous.
583 ## - ACTION NOTE
Action Condition reviewed
Time/date of action 20120620
Status condition level 1
651 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Great Britain
Chronological subdivision 1707-
690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN)
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Measurement
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Historic collection Historic collection Historic collection 20/03/2012   OCTAVO 1769 WILSON 30077775 06/08/2019 1 06/08/2019 Book