Books
Fred Rickey has purchased recently
The Practical Surveyor, or, the Art
of Land-Measuring, Made Easy, by Samuel Wyld. Reprint of the
first edition, 1725, with notes by David Manthey, Flower-de-Luce Books,
2001. ISBN 1-931468-06-0.
A Treatise of Mathematical
Instruments, as are usually put into a
Portable Case, by John Robertson. Reprint of the third edition,
1775,
with notes by David Manthey, Flower-de-Luce Books, 2002. ISBN
1-931468-11-7.
Drawing the Line. How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border
in America, by Edwin Danson. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001.
ISBN 0-471-38502-6.
Rewriting the History of School
Mathematics in North America, 1607-1861, by Nerida Ellerton and
M. A. (Ken) Clements, Springer, 2011. ISBN 978-94-007-2638-0.