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The exact surveyor: or, The whole art of surveying of land Shewing how to plot all manner of grounds, whether small inclosures, champain-plaine, wood-lands, or mountaines, by the plain table, theodolite, and circumferentor; and how exactly to prove the truth thereof. An also how to finde the area, or content of any land; to protract, reduce, and divide the same, as required: to take the plot of a whole mannor, and to make a perfect map or chart thereof, and how to advance and beautifie the same. Usefull for all that either sell or purchase. By J:Eyre, Practitione in the Mathematicks

By: Language: English Publication details: London printed for Nath: Brook, at the Angel in Corne-Hill 1654Description: [8], 224, [8] p. ill., tables 8oSubject(s): Action note:
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OCTAVO 1647 GREAVES A discourse of the Romane foot, and denarius OCTAVO 1650 COKE The compleat copy-holder OCTAVO 1652 BLITH The English improuer improued or the survey of husbandry surueyed OCTAVO 1654 EYRE The exact surveyor: or, The whole art of surveying of land OCTAVO 1656 PHILLIPPES The purchasers pattern OCTAVO 1658 ATWELL The faithfull surveyour discovering divers errours in land measuring; and shewing how to measure all manner of ground, and to plot it, and to shut it, and to prove the shutting, by the chain onely; as quickly, exactly, and with less help then with any instrument whatsoever: as also to take distances of a mile-space by the chain without measuring of them, and the situation of any building. Teaching likewise the making and use of a new and general instrument, called a pandoron; which, as exactly and with less charge, supplies the use of the plain-table, theodelete, quadrant, quadrat, circumferentor, and any other observing instrument. To this is added a discovery of divers secrets touching conveying and cleansing of water, flowing and drayning of grounds, quenching houses on fire, &c. With an appendix unfolding errours in board and timber-measure with directions for making a carpenters-ruler. By George Atvvell, aliàs Wells, now teacher of the mathematicks in Cambridge OCTAVO 1658 COLLINS The sector on a quadrant
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