A Treatise on Mathematical InstrumentsBoD – Books on Demand, 2022 M10 24 - 184 pages Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. |
Contents
ON MATHEMATICAL DRAWING INSTRUMENTS | 1 |
Drawing | 7 |
Protracting Scales | 14 |
Gunters Lines | 25 |
The Plain Scale | 33 |
Marquoiss Scales | 42 |
Beam Compasses | 48 |
Coggeshalls Sliding Rule | 54 |
Levelling Remarks | 112 |
33 | 120 |
Artificial Horizon | 121 |
Surveying Remarks | 129 |
42 | 134 |
Plotting Scale of best Form | 135 |
55 | 141 |
Method of Observing with the Transit | 151 |
Common terms and phrases
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