Main entry:

Lewis, M. J. T., 1938-

Title & Author:

Surveying instruments of Greece and Rome / M.J.T. Lewis.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Description:

xx, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-368) and indexes.
Instruments and Methods -- Precursors of the Greeks -- Measuring distances -- Orientation and right angles -- Measuring heights -- Levelling -- Background to the dioptra -- The sighting tube -- Astronomical instruments -- The Hipparchan dioptra -- The measuring rod -- Gamaliel's tube -- Philo's level and staff -- The dioptra -- The treatises -- The sources of the treatises -- The minor sources -- The plane astrolabe -- The standard dioptra -- Hero's dioptra -- Levelling -- Other surveys -- Chronological conclusions -- Testing a reconstructed dioptra -- The libra -- The evidence -- Testing a reconstructed libra -- The groma -- Grids -- The groma and its use -- The hodometer -- Practical Applications -- Measurement of the earth -- Mountain heights -- Canals and aqueducts -- Early canal schemes -- Aqueduct surveying -- The Nimes aqueduct and others -- The challenges of surveying -- Tunnels -- Categories -- Alignment -- Level -- Meeting -- Instruments -- Roman roads -- Interpolation and extrapolation -- Successive approximation -- Dead reckoning -- Geometrical construction -- The Sources -- The treatises -- Hero of Alexandria: Dioptra -- Julius Africanus: Cesti 1 15 -- Anonymus Byzantinus: Geodesy -- Al-Karaji: The Search for Hidden Waters XXIII -- The basic elements (Chapter 1) -- Background to the dioptra (Chapter 2) -- The dioptra (Chapter 3) -- The libra (Chapter 4) -- The groma (Chapter 5) -- The hodometer (Chapter 6) -- Measurement of the earth (Chapter 7) -- Mountain heights (Chapter 8).

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ISBN:

0521792975 (hbk.)
9780521792974 (hbk.)

Subject:

Surveying Greece Instruments.
Surveying Rome Instruments.
Surveying History.
Arpentage Grèce Instruments.
Arpentage Rome Instruments.
Arpentage Histoire.
Surveying
Surveying Instruments
Geodäsie
Geodätisches Instrument
Methode
Quelle
Vermessung
Landmeetkunde.
Instrumenten.
Klassieke oudheid.
Surveying Instruments z Greece.
Surveying Instruments z Rome.
Technology Greece.
Technology Rome.
Géodésie Instruments Grèce Histoire.
Géodésie Instruments Rome Histoire.
Topographie Instruments Rome.
Levés Antiquité.
Arpentage Instruments Antiquité.
Greece
Rome (Empire)
Griechenland
Römisches Reich
Griechenland <Altertum>

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215873
Call No.: TA562 .L4 2001
Status: Available