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 the English language. / By John Love.
| Author/creator | Love, John |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | The thirteenth edition, adapted to American surveyors. |
| Publication Info | New-York : Printed and sold by Samuel Campbell, 124 Pearl-Street, 1796. |
| Description | 17 unnumbered pages, 10-189 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 3 pages, 36 unnumbered pages, 7 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 30704. ^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 30704 |
| References | Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2384 |
| 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. 30704). |
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