Geodaesia: or, The art of surveying, and measuring land made easy : Shewing by plain and practical rules, to survey, protract, cast up, reduce or divide any piece of land whatsoever; with new tables for the ease of the surveyor in reducing the measure of land, : moreover a more facile and sure way of surveying by the chain, than has hitherto been taught. : As also to lay out new lands in America, or elsewhere: and how to make a perfect map of a river's mouth or harbour; with several other things never before published in our language. / By John Love.

Author/creator Love, John
Format Electronic
EditionThe twelfth edition, adapted to American surveyors.
Publication InfoNew-York : Printed and sold by Samuel Campbell, no 37, Hanover Square, M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]
Description17 unnumbered pages, 10-189 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 3 pages, 36 unnumbered pages, 7 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 25731. ^A478749
General note"A table of the northing or southing, easting or westing, of every degree from the meridian, to the number of chains run upon any degree."--p. [190-205].
General note"The use of the foregoing table."--p. 1-3, 4th count
General note"A table of sines and tangents to every fifth minute of the quadrant."-- [24] p., 5th count.
General note"A table of logarithm numbers."--p. [25-35], 5th count.
General note"An appendix, shewing farther how to survey by the chain only: with an useful table to that purpose."-- 7, [1] p. at end.
References Evans 25731
References Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2380
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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. 25731).

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