A complete treatise on practical land-surveying, in seven parts; (1839)
Nesbit, A[nthony], 1778-1859. [from old catalog] · London, Longman, Orme, Browne, Green, and Longmans; [etc., etc.] · leaf 80
ide them intotriangles. TO COMPUTE THE CONTENT. Rule.—By the rules given in the last two problems, find thedouble area of each triangle and trapezium contained in thefigure, Collect all the double areas into one sum, which divide by 2,and the quotient will be the whole area. EXAMPLES. 1. Lay down a… … 58 land-surveying. (Part III. CONSTRUCTION. From the notes, the figure obviously consists of five sides,and is divided into a triangle and a trapezium. Draw the baseA C, which make = 1433 links; at 643 links, let fall the per-pendicular a B, upon which lay off 273 links; join A B and C B,and the…
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