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100	1		_aBurns, Arthur
245	0	0	_aGeodaesia improved _bor, a new and correct method of surveying made exceeding easy. In two parts. Part I, Teacheth to measure, divide, and delineate, any Quantity of Land both accessible and inaccessible, whether Meadows, Pasture, Fields, Woods, Water, Commons, Forests, Manors, &c. by the chain only, whose Dimensions are cast up by the pen, and consequently freed from the errors of estimation that unavoidably attend the Scale and Protractor. With necessary Directions to map elegantly. Part II, Introduces Instruments, Trigonometry, preparative Remarks on the Earth's Superficies; and teacheth the invaluable Method of casting up the Dimensions of Instruments by the pen several Ways, all agreeing, &c. &c. With a most useful appendix Concerning the practical Methods of measuring Timber, Hay, Marl Pits, Bricklayers and Plaisterers Work. The whole being illustrated with proper Definitions, Problems, Rules, Examples, Explanations, and emblematical Types, rendered uncommonly easy. By A. Burns, Teacher of the Mathematics in Tarporley, Cheshire.
260			_aChester _bprinted for the author, and sold by J. Poole in Chester; and by all other booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland _cMDCCLXXI. [1771]
300			_a[10], ii, [2], iv-x, 353, [3] p., V plates _bill., maps _c8o
583			_aCondition reviewed _c20120620 _lcondition level 1
651		4	_aGreat Britain _y1707-
690			_aMeasurement _96256
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