M&D Deep Duck Read. On science.

[Mark Kohut]

Ongoing baseline concept--hat tip to a longtime Plister--Mason & Dixon
are 'scientists' within their time, right? Or at least technologists?
What was status of such?

The pages from this book show how mathematics was taught to many young
Englishmen so they could navigate at sea but how surveying became
steadily popular to measure estates. Mathematics and astronomy
skillls. Accuracy, that necessary condition of science. The not-magic.

https://books.google.com/books?id=urKT4s0qP88C&pg=PA162&dq=surveying+%2B+18th+Century&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zrKWVJHGE-6LsQSKtYCIAg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=surveying%20%2B%2018th%20Century&f=false
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