A treatise of practical surveying : which is demonstrated from its first principles. Wherein every thing that is useful and curious in that art, is fully considered and explained. Particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the areas of right-lined figures arithmetically, or by calculation, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of. : The whole illustrated with copper-plates

A treatise of practical surveying : which is demonstrated from its first principles. Wherein every thing that is useful and curious in that art, is fully considered and explained. Particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the areas of right-lined figures arithmetically, or by calculation, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of. : The whole illustrated with copper-plates. / By Robert Gibson; teacher of the mathematics. ; With alterations and amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors.

Author/creator	Gibson, Robert
Other author/creator	Poupard, James engraver.
Format	Electronic and Book
Edition	The sixth edition.
Publication Info	Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Crukshank, no. 87, High-Street, 1792 [i.e., 1794]
Description	vii, 288 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 90 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 60 pages, 13 folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Surveying--Tables. Surveying.

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 24357. ^A478749
General note	Edition statement transposed; precedes "By Robert Gibson ..." on title page.
General note	Plates engraved by James Poupard.
General note	"Mathematical tables: difference of latitude and departure: logarithms, from 1 to 10,000. Artificial sines, tangents, and secants."--[5], 90, [3], 60 p.; has separate title page, with imprint date of 1794. This title includes "Tables of differences of latitude and departure ..." ([1], 90, [1] p.) with separate title page having imprint date of 1790. The Tables of differences of latitude and departure are attributed to John Robertson.
References	Evans 24357
References	Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2376
Other forms	Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 24357).

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