A Treatise on Surveying, Containing the Theory and Practice: To Which is Prefixed a Perspicuous System of Plane Trigonometry [Early American Engineering]
Philadelphia: Kimber and Sharpless, 1843. A Very Good Hardcover. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —John Gummere was a self-taught polymath whose contributions to astronomy and mathematics made him a fellow of the American Philosophical Society. His surveying treatise was more than a textbook; it was a manual of expansion, used by land speculators.....