Mathematical Instruments, Their Construction, Adjustment, Testing, and Use: Comprising Drawing, Measuring, Optical, Surveying, and Astronomical Instruments (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

John Fry Heather

 
9780331566987: Mathematical Instruments, Their Construction, Adjustment, Testing, and Use: Comprising Drawing, Measuring, Optical, Surveying, and Astronomical Instruments (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Mathematical Instruments, Their Construction, Adjustment, Testing, and Use<br/><br/>Upon the publication of the original edition of this treatise the author was very greatly and very agreean surprised by the large number of complimentary letters that he received from persons engaged in a variety of pursuits, many of whom were entirely unknown to him. The praises, thus liberally bestowed on his humble work, were supplemented by its introduction, as a text-book, into numerous educational establishments, and its selection by the Admiralty to form part of a midshipman's kit....

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