A Treatise on Practical Surveying: Which is Demonstrated from Its First Principles, Wherein Every Thing that is Useful and Curious in that Art, is Fully Considered and Explained |
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20 perches 50 Dist ABCD acres altitude annexed Answer base bearing bisect blank line centre chains and links chord circle circumferentor Co-secant Secant Co-sine Co-tang column contained cyphers decimal decimal fraction Dep Lat difference divided divisor draw east edge EXAMPLE feet field-book figures four-pole chains given angle half the sum height Hence hypothenuse inches instrument latitude length logarithm magnetical measure meridian distance multiplied needle number of degrees object off-sets parallel parallelogram perpendicular piece of ground plane Portmarnock PROB proportion protractor quotient radius right angles right line scale of equal SCHOLIUM sect semicircle side sights sine square root stationary distance sun's suppose survey taken tance Tang tangent thence theo theodolite THEOREM thro trapezium triangle ABC trigonometry true amplitude true azimuth two-pole chains vane variation whence