containing the first principles, the operations, with some of the uses and applications of that admirable method; according to the scheme prefix'd to his tract of quadratures, by (its first inventor) the incomparable Sir Isaac Newton

with an appendix, bringing the information down to the present time

with an index : corrected to 27th December

part I. Teacheth to measure, divide, and delineate, any quantity of land both accessible and inaccessible, whether meadows, pasture, fields, woods, water, commons, forests, manors, &c. by the chain only, whose dimensions are cast up by the pen, and consequently freed from the errors of estimation that unavoidably attend the scale and protractor. With necessary directions to map elegantly : part II. Introduces instruments, trigonometry, preparative remarks on the earth's superficies; and teacheth the invaluable method of casting up the dimensions of instruments by the pen several ways, all agreeing, &c. &c. : with a most useful appendix concerning the practical methods of measuring timber, hay'marl pits, bricklayers and plasterers work...

examples of boilers used for steam navigation, and of those employed in her Majesty's service; together with an example of the turbine wheel : including also the new subjects contained in the present amended edition of the late Mr. Tredgold's work, a glossary of terms applicable to marine engines and boilers, with French and Spanish translations, and a general index

July to Dec. 1856

chemical and agricultural : shewing carbon to be a compound body, made by plants, and decomposed by putrefaction

a series of original communications made to the philosophical magazine, chiefly on those subjects : with copious illustrative notes