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Ref NoEFP/094/1657/2
Finding NumberAQ 094/1657/2
TitleThe compleat surveyor, containing the whole art of surveying of land : By the plaine table, theodolite, circumferentor, peractor and other instruments, after a more easie, exact and compendious manner, then hath been hitherto published by any: the Plain Table being so contrived, that it alone will conveniently perform whatsoever may be done by any of the fore-mentioned instruments, or any other yet invented, with the same ease and exactness; and in many cases much better. Together with the taking of all manner of heights and distances, either accessible or in-accessible, the plotting and protracting of all manner of grounds, either small inclosures, champion plains, wood-lands, or any other mountainous and un-even grounds. Also, how to take the plot of a whole manor, to cast up to the conteut, and to make a perfect chart or map thereof. All which particulars are performed three several ways, and and [sic] by three several instruments. Hereunto is added a new way of surveying of land
LevelItem
Date1657
DescriptionPlanometria; Whole art of surveying the land
First published in 1650, under pseudonym, Oliver Wallinby, with title: Planometria, or The whole art of surveying of land.; Planometria.; Whole art of surveying the land.; Microfilm.; R18519.
AuthorLeybourn, William, 1626-1716
SubjectSurveying
Physical Description[12], 308 p. : ill., diagrams ; 2j.
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
PublisherLondon : printed by R. and W. Leybourn, for G. Sawbridge, at the signe of the Bible upon Ludg-gate-hill, M.DC.LVII. 1657.
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