Tables of difference of latitude and departure for navigators, Land Surveyors, &c. with their application to plane trigonometry, And their Use in plotting and calculating surveys, Which perfects the House-Work of that Art. To which is prefixed, An Account of the Diurnal Variation of the Magnetic Needle, the Error thence arising and its Correction; the Use of a new Surveying Instrument, &c. Being great Improvements of the Field-Work. The Whole almost Entirely New. Compiled at the Instance of a Committee of the Dublin Society, By John Hood, Land Surveyor.

People / Organizations

• John Hood (Author)

Imprint

Dublin: printed and sold by William Sleater in Castle-Street, for the author; and also sold by Edward Spicer and James Lynch, Mathemaitcal Instrument Makers; where may be had the Chequered Paper and Compass Theodolite, mentioned in this Book, and all other Instruments for Surveyors, Navigators, &c, MDCCLXXII. [1772]

Publication year

1772

ESTC No.

T63987

Grub Street ID

289124

Description

19,2,2,[91]p.,plate ; 4⁰

Note

'A survey of Moyle-Moss, .. ' has duplicate pagination.

The tables have a separate register and are unpaginated.