Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book still in great condition. Cover and corners has some wear but pages are free from notes and in good condition. Some dust marking to page edges due to age. See images. A great book.

About the book >.>.> Nighttimers used the services of another surveyor. His north and east directions were based on the North Star. He too measured distances eastward from the center of the town square in meters (x’ in meters) and sacred distances north in miles (y’ in miles). His records were complete and accurate. Every corner of a plot appeared in his book with its two coordinates x’ and y’. One fall a student of surveying turned up with novel openmindedness. Contrary to all previous tradition he attended both of the rival schools operated by the two leaders of surveying. At the day school he learned from one expert his method of recording the location of the gates of the town and the corners of plots of land. At night school he learned the other method. As the days and nights passed the student puzzled more and more in an attempt to find some harmonious relationship between the rival ways of recording location. He carefully compared the records of the two surveyors on the loca- tions of the town gates relative to the center of the town square