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100	1		_aWilson, Henry _d1673-1741
245	0	0	_aSurveying Improved _bor, 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 Plan-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 so 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 Fifth Edition, with Additions; embellished and illustrated with proper Cuts, ... By Henry Wilson, ... To which is now added, Geodoesia Accurata: or, Surveying made Easy by the Chain only. ... By William Hume, ...
260			_aLondon _bprinted for T. Longman, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Rivington, W. Johnston, S. Crowder and Co, and B. Law _cMDCCLXII [1762]
300			_a[12], 555, [1] p., plates _c8o
583			_aCondition reviewed _c20120620 _lcondition level 1
651		4	_aGreat Britain _y1707-
690			_aMeasurement _96256
700	1		_aHume, William
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