Elements of Surveying and Leveling: With Descriptions of the Instruments, and the Necessary Tables |
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About twenty - five minutes before the time of the greatest eastern or western elongation of the pole - star , as shown by the tables of elongations , let the theodolite be placed at a convenient point and levelled .
About twenty - five minutes before the time of the greatest eastern or western elongation of the pole - star , as shown by the tables of elongations , let the theodolite be placed at a convenient point and levelled .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Elements of Surveying and Leveling: With Descriptions of the Instruments, and the Necessary Tables |
| Author | Charles Davies |
| Publisher | A.S.Barnes, 1871 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 25 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 270 pages |
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