Geometrical and Graphical Essays: Containing a General Description of the Mathematical Instruments Used in Geometry, Civil and Military Surveying, Levelling, and Perspective; with Many New Practical Problems, Illustrated by Thirty-four Copper Plates

C. Baldwin for, and sold by W. and S. Jones, 1813 - 534 σελίδες

Necessary Definitions and First Principles	1

Of Mathematical Drawing Instruments	10

Of Parallel Rules	21

Of the Protractor	28

Of the Sector	39

Select Geometrical Problems	51

Of the Division of Straight Lines	57

Of Proportional Lines	64

Of Hadleys Quadrant and Sextant	241

Of the New Pocket Sextant and Artificial Horizon	268

Of Mr Gales Improved Method of Surveying	294

Mr Milnes Method of Surveying with the best Theodolite	302

Of Plotting	309

Mr Gale on Plotting	315

Mr Milne on Plotting	322

Of the new MapMeter or PlanMeasurer	346

Of the Transformation and Reduction of Figures	78

Curious Problems on the Division of Lines and Circles	89

Mr Birds Method of Dividing	104

Methods of describing Arcs of Circles of large Magnitude	129

To describe an Ellipse c	147

Of the Division of Land	154

Of Plain Trigonometry	164

Of Surveying	186

Of the Instruments used in Surveying	194

Of the Surveying Cross	202

Of the Plain Table	216

The Complete Theodolite	227

To transfer one Plan from another	362

Astronomical Problems	386

Nine examples by the Editor notes 400 and	408

Military Geometry	426

Essays on Perspective	449

Of Instruments for Drawing in Perspective	469

Rodhams new Method of Surveying and keeping a Field	479

Gunners Callipers	486

Description of the Carpenters Sliding Rule	496

British and Foreign Tables Measures c	509

Various Standard National Measures	524

Description of Fareys new Elliptical Instrument	531

Τίτλος	Geometrical and Graphical Essays: Containing a General Description of the Mathematical Instruments Used in Geometry, Civil and Military Surveying, Levelling, and Perspective; with Many New Practical Problems, Illustrated by Thirty-four Copper Plates
Συγγραφέας	George Adams
Επιμελητής	William Jones
Έκδοση	4
Εκδότης	C. Baldwin for, and sold by W. and S. Jones, 1813
Πρωτότυπο από	η Δημόσια Βιβλιοθήκη της Νέας Υόρκης
Ψηφιοποιήθηκε στις	27 Σεπτ. 2010
Μέγεθος	534 σελίδες

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