rathborne aaron (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 228 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in modern quarter black leather and black cloth. Gilt lettering on red leather spine label. Minor shelf wear. Spine slightly cocked. Toning and foxing to interior pages. Features engraved title page and engraved head pieces to denote beginning of sections. Lacking engraved portraits of author and Prince Charles. JB Consignment. Shelved in Case 9. When it was published in 1616, Aaron Rathborn's "The Surveyor in Foure Bookes" was considered the most complete book on surveying in the English language. It presents the first complete picture of a seventeenth century surveyor's instruments and work. As one of the first books to strongly advocate the use of mathematics in survey projects, it introduces the basic principles of geometry, decimal arithmetic, and logarithmic tables as well as their applications in the field. ESTC S116149. 1387194. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.