Speculum topographicum

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Get this from a library. Speculum topographicum: or The topographicall glasse: Containing the vse of the topographicall glasse. Theodelitus. Plaine table, and circumferentor. With many rules of geometry, astronomy, topography perspectiue, and hydrography.

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Hopton, Arthur, Speculum Topographicum, or the Topographicall Glasse, (London, ).This is a general treatise on land surveying and dicusses the instruments and methods then in use. There are many illustrations showing examples of horizontal and vertical triangles used for determining distances and heights.

From: Speculum topographicum: or The topographicall glasse: Containing the vse of the topographicall glasse. Theodelitus. Plaine table, and circumferentor. With many rules of geometry, astronomy, topography perspectiue, and hydrography. HOPTON, ARTHUR, Speculum Topographicum, or the Topographicall Glasse, (London,reprinted(Norwood, N.J., ), ” x ”, pages plus 2 folding plates.

This is a quality reprint of one of the first surveying books that would likely have been used by American surveyors. It is hardbound with a bright red cloth binding. SOLD. Richard Witt's Arithmeticall Questions, published inwas a landmark in the history of compound a previous paper (J.I.A.

96, ) I have described the book and attempted to show why it is so article sets out some information about Witt's life, which has come to light as a result of research done since the previous article (when very little was known about him).Cited by: Nicholas Okes (died ) was an English printer in London of the Jacobean and Caroline eras, remembered for printing works of English Renaissance was responsible for early editions of works by many of the playwrights of the period, including William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood, James Shirley, and John Ford.

‘Speculum Topographicum: or the Topographical Glasse, containing the use of the Topographicall Glasse Theodelitus, Plaine Table, and Circumferentor,’ London,4to, dedicated to the ‘Mathematicall Practizer,’ 9 Apriland containing many good practical rules in geometry, measurement of distances, heights, sun's altitude and.

This paper reports the experience of reconstructing a surveying instrument—the plane table—using the description found in Arthur Hopton’s Speculum topographicum: or The topographicall glasse (): ‘Of the Plaine Table, with a description thereof, and the parts thereunto belonging’.

One of the most detailed early printed descriptions of the instrument, it is illustrated with woodcut Cited by: 3. Sources by Binders Please note: Only sources with information about their binders are listed. Speculum topographicum, or, The topographicall glasse. Speculum vitæ humanæ Book of Common Prayer.

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