Mathematical Instruments: Their Construction, Adjustment, Testing, and Use, Volume 3 - Couverture souple

Heather, John Fry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1141769964 ISBN 13 : 9781141769964

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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Book by Heather John Fry

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The original one-volume edition of the Treatise on Mathe matical Instruments having now been expanded into three volumes, this third volume is devoted entirely to the consideration of Surveying Instruments and of Astronomical I nstruments, fQ nning Parts IV. and Y. of the work. The additional space thus obtained has been employed by the A uthor, in the first place, in describing more fully the several varieties of the instruments treated of, and in giving more detailed and comprehensive illustrations of their application ;and, in the second place, in introducing entirely new chapters upon instruments for the determination of distances by obscr ati6tii,o and upon the measurement of altitudes bihe barometer and thermometer. A chapter has also been added tc Bixt V. upon the construction and use of theE quatirial, andonbtddly the form of instrument best adapted for jkh% examination cf those phenomena of the solar orb, which now eznvinajeo liixvih. attention from the scientific world. The Author is again bound to mention his obligations toM essrs. Elliott, who have kindly supplied several of the woodcuts that illustrate the volume, and toM essrs. Parkes andS on of Birmingham, who sent him a large number of instruments for inspection, among which were theD rawing and Mining Levels, described at pp. 87, 88. To these gentlemen, and to all from whom he has derived assistance in the preparation of this and the preceding volumes, the Author begs leave again to return his most sincere thanks, and ventures to repeat the hope already expressed in the preface to the first volume, that the skill of the workman may not appear to have been altogether inadequate to the manipulation of the materials suppH ed him.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Nabu Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1141769964
• ISBN 13: 9781141769964
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 218