Geodaesia : or, The art of surveying and measuring land made easy (1768)
Love, John, fl. 1688, Clark, Samuel · London : Printed for J. Rivington · leaf 80
ake them afunder, &c.is like teaching the art of fencing by book; onehours ufe of them, or but looking on them in the inflrument* Of Injlntments and their Ufes. 57jnftrument-makers (hop, will better defcribe themto you, than the reading one hundred fheets of pa-per concerning them. Let it… … fure the length of the fides A B or A C, and thefeinftruments we are fpeaking of, are to take the angleA. And firft, by the Plane Table. Place the table (already fitted for the work, witha meet of paper upon it) as nigh to the. angle A asyou can, the north end of the needle hanging di-redtly ever…
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