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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Overton, Henry, 1675 or 1676â1751
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18th century
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diagram
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ink drawing
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Distances -- Measurement.
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Magnetic declination.
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Plane trigonometry.
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The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989)
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Overton, Henry, 1675 or 1676â1751
Art of surveying
1757?