A Practical Treatise on Mining, Land and Railway Surveying, Engineering, &c.; containing the errors of the magnetic needle; practical geometry and trigonometry; with description, use, and adjustments of the miners' new transit theodolite; also, a new plan of setting out underground railway curves; underground levelling; construction of longitudinal, transverse, and geological sections of mines, etc. with tables of distances from planes of the meridian and latitude, tables of natural sines, secants, tangents, ratios of inclined planes, etc. illustrated by numerous plates and woodcuts
London: Atchley and Co., 1863. Fourth edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. xx, 249, illustrated with 8 folding plates; missing frontispiece. The author created a complete system of practical geometry, as relating to the surface and underground surveying of mines, for the student of mineral surveying. Practical solutions to..... More