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If the entire survey has been made as above directed , the sum of all the internal angles will be equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides , diminished by four right angles . If this sum , as in practice will be ...
If the entire survey has been made as above directed , the sum of all the internal angles will be equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides , diminished by four right angles . If this sum , as in practice will be ...
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Page 80 - All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
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Page 58 - A line which is to be established from the course only, should be re-run at nearly the same season...
Page 58 - It must, therefore, be a matter of uncertainty 'whether we have the correct bearing of the line, even when the change for years has been ascertained with the utmost care.
Page 57 - The variation of the magnetic needle in declination, is subject to much irregularity, in some instances increasing, in other decreasing, and some years having scarcely a perceptible motion.
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Manual for Practical Surveyors: Containing Methods Indispensably Necessary for Actual Field Operations |
| Author | E. W. Beans |
| Publisher | J. W. Moore, 1854 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 108 pages |
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