Land And Engineering Surveying

Land And Engineering Surveying

Author: T. Baker C. E. & F. E. Dixon, C.E.

Year: 1919

The “R UDIMENTARY T REATISE ” of the late Mr. Baker on “Land And Engineering Surveying” has been so long and so widely known as an accepted text-book in schools and colleges, and has been so generally recommended by professional authorities, that it. is needless to dwell upon its merits. But the conditions under which the training of Students in Surveying, as well as the work of the Surveyor, is now carried on, are so different from those prevailing when the book was first issued, that a revision of the volume was felt to be necessary; and, by arrangement with the Publishers, I have undertaken the preparation of this edition. While I have been careful to preserve all the main features of the much-esteemed “Baker,” the opportunity has been taken of dealing with the text of the entire work Certain sections thereof which, though ancillary to the practice of a Surveyor, could hardly be deemed appropriate to a rudimentary treatise have been eliminated, and in certain other directions the scope of the work has been extended. The volume being recommended by (amongst other authorities) the Councils of the Institution of Surveyors, the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and the. Incorpo