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Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.

Geology: a long section through mountains, and a volcano, showing strata, and, above, classes of animals. Coloured engraving by J. Fisher after T. Webster and F. Buckland.

A man and his assistant holding a rope to survey a field. Woodcut, 15--.

An Arabic (?) man singing from a songbook; African or Indian men surveying the land; westerners sowing seed and reaping; smiths hammering iron. Engraving.

Geography: comparative heights of mountains in South America. Aquatint, 1818.

Surveying: equipment for surveying, a level, a plumb-line, etc. Coloured engraving by J. Lodge.

Louis Lacharme, with a level and with local assistants, clearing a route through dense jungle in Panama for an interoceanic canal. Wood engraving by G. Vuillier.

Measurement: a pedometer. Engraving, [1661?].

Zapogha, Nicolo

Méthode de lever les plans et les cartes de terre et de mer ... / par feu M. Ozanam ouvrage entièrement refondu et augmenté par M. Audierne / [Jacques Ozanam].

Del modo di misvrare, le distantie, le superficie, i corpi, le piante, le prouincie, le prospettiue, e tutte le altre cose terrene, che possono occorrere a gli huomini, secondo le uere regole d'Euclide, e de gli altri piu lodati scrittori / [Cosimo Bartoli].

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Zapogha, Nicolo

Measurement: a pedometer. Engraving, [1661?].

Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.

Méthode de lever les plans et les cartes de terre et de mer ... / par feu M. Ozanam ouvrage entièrement refondu et augmenté par M. Audierne / [Jacques Ozanam].

Del modo di misvrare, le distantie, le superficie, i corpi, le piante, le prouincie, le prospettiue, e tutte le altre cose terrene, che possono occorrere a gli huomini, secondo le uere regole d'Euclide, e de gli altri piu lodati scrittori / [Cosimo Bartoli].