TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Surveying

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This book contains translations of all the ancient texts on surveying, including major sources hitherto untapped. It sets out to reconstruct the instruments and to explain how they were used. A level of technical sophistication emerges which must count as one of the greatest ach…

"Memoir of surveying for the BLM in the Utah Desert. Reflects on man's relationship to nature and work, the Mormon Church and the settling of the West, the idealistic legacy of the sixties, the controversy over Glen Canyon Dam, and the often antagonistic relationship of American…