A treatise on practical mensuration : in ten parts : containing the most approved methods of drawing geometrical figures; mensuration of superficies; land-surveying; mensuration of solids; the use of the carpenter's rule; timber measure, in which is shown the method of measuring and valuing standing timber; artificers' works, illustrated by the dimensions and contents of a house; mensuration of haystacks, drains, canals, marlpits, ponds, mill-dams, embankments, quarries, coal-heaps, and clay-heaps; conic sections and their solids; the most useful problems in gauging, according to the new imperial measures; plane trigonometry, with its application to the mensuration of heights and distances; trigonometrical surveys; and a dictionary of the terms used in architecture, by A. Nesbit et al.

Title:	A treatise on practical mensuration : in ten parts : containing the most approved methods of drawing geometrical figures; mensuration of superficies; land-surveying; mensuration of solids; the use of the carpenter's rule; timber measure, in which is shown the method of measuring and valuing standing timber; artificers' works, illustrated by the dimensions and contents of a house; mensuration of haystacks, drains, canals, marlpits, ponds, mill-dams, embankments, quarries, coal-heaps, and clay-heaps; conic sections and their solids; the most useful problems in gauging, according to the new imperial measures; plane trigonometry, with its application to the mensuration of heights and distances; trigonometrical surveys; and a dictionary of the terms used in architecture
Author:	Nesbit, A. (Anthony), 1778-1859
Author:	Spottiswoodes and Shaw
Author:	Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Note:	Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, 1850

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