@article{546906,
      note = {With a preliminary leaf of verse signed: Thomas Sadler, a  list of subscribers and a final errata leaf.},
      author = {Burns, Arthur.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/546906},
      title = {Geodæsia improved or, a new and correct method of  surveying made exceeding easy. In two parts. Part I,  Teacheth to measure, divide, and delineate, any Quantity of  Land both accessible and inaccessible, whether Meadows,  Pasture, Fields, Woods, Water, Commons, Forests, Manors,  &c. by the chain only, whose Dimensions are cast up by  the pen, and consequently freed from the errors of  estimation that unavoidably attend the Scale and  Protractor. With necessary Directions to map elegantly.  Part II, Introduces Instruments, Trigonometry, preparative  Remarks on the Earth's Superficies; and teacheth the  invaluable Method of casting up the Dimensions of  Instruments by the pen several Ways, all agreeing, &c.  &c. With a most useful appendix Concerning the  practical Methods of measuring Timber, Hay, Marl Pits,  Bricklayers and Plaisterers Work. The whole being  illustrated with proper Definitions, Problems, Rules,  Examples, Explanations, and emblematical Types, rendered  uncommonly easy. By A. Burns, Teacher of the Mathematics in  Tarporley, Cheshire. [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {printed for the author, and sold by J. Poole in Chester;  and by all other booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland,},
      recid = {546906},
      pages = {[10],ii,[2],iv-x,353,[3]p.,V plates :},
      address = {Chester :},
      year = {1771},
}