The countrey-survey-book: or, Land-meters vade-mecum
Wherein the principles and practical rules for surveying of land, are so plainly (though briefly) delivered, that any one of ordinary parts (understanding how to add, substract, multiply and divide,) may by the help of this small treatise alone and a few cheap instruments easy to be procured, measure a parcel of land, and with judgment and expedition plot it, and give up the content thereof. With an appendix, containing twelve problems touching compound interest and annuities; and a method to contract the work of fellowship and alligation alternate, very considerable in many cases. Illustrated with copper plates. By Adam Martindale, a friend to mathematical learning.
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Author
Publication
1682 - printed by A.G. and J.P. for R. Clavel, at the Peacock in St. Pauls Church-yard, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
58,500 words, Guess
Page Count
234 pages
Physical Format
Microform
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL18743816M
Alternate Titles
- Countrey-survey-book
- Land-meters vade-mecum.
- Appendix containing XII. problems touching compound interest & annuities.
Subjects
Genres
- Early works to 1800
Series Statement
- Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1798:7.
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- The countrey-survey-book: or, Land-meters vade-mecum: Wherein the principles and practical rules for surveying of land, are so plainly (though briefly) delivered, that any one of ordinary parts (understanding how to add, substract, multiply and divide,) may by the help of this small treatise alone and a few cheap instruments easy to be procured, measure a parcel of land, and with judgment and expedition plot it, and give up the content thereof. With an appendix, containing twelve problems touching compound interest and annuities; and a method to contract the work of fellowship and alligation alternate, very considerable in many cases. Illustrated with copper plates. By Adam Martindale, a friend to mathematical learning.
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