Download or read book A Treatise on Topography, for Both Civil and Military Purposes, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by C. S. de Malortie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on Topography, for Both Civil and Military Purposes, Vol. 1 Part the Second consists of a translation of Biot's Essay on finding the altitudes of places by means of the barometer including a brief historical se mm of the barometrical fortunia, and its complete demonstration by the. Simple elements of algebra; as we'll as tables, from which the difference of altitude of any two places may be obtained by the simple subtraction of two numbers; in this part. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.