TY - GEN T1 - A treatise of practical surveyingwhich is demonstrated from its first principles. Wherein every thing that is useful and curious in that art, is fully considered and explained. Particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the areas of right-lined figures arithmetically, or by calculation, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of. The whole illustrated with copper-plates. By Robert Gibson, teacher of the mathematics. With alterations and amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors. DA - MDCCLXXXIX [i.e., 1790] CY - Philadelphia : AU - Gibson, Robert, AU - Crukshank, Joseph, AU - Poupard, James, ET - The fifth edition. PB - Printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, PP - Philadelphia : PY - MDCCLXXXIX [i.e., 1790] N1 - Edition statement transposed; precedes "By Robert Gibson .." on title page. N1 - Plates engraved by James Poupard. N1 - "Tables of difference of latitude and departure .."--[1], 90, [1] p.; has separate title page, with publication date of 1790. Odd numbered pages printed on versos. Attributed to John Robertson. N1 - Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas". ID - 680342 KW - Surveying. KW - Surveying TI - A treatise of practical surveyingwhich is demonstrated from its first principles. Wherein every thing that is useful and curious in that art, is fully considered and explained. Particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the areas of right-lined figures arithmetically, or by calculation, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of. The whole illustrated with copper-plates. By Robert Gibson, teacher of the mathematics. With alterations and amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors. LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://find.gale.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=1304900200&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=usi UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://find.gale.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=1304900200&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=usi ER -