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THIS treatise will be found a valuable addition to the literature of geodetic operations; the title is, however, misleading,—it implies a discussion of the various corrections required to allow for the effects of temperature, refraction, &c.; such corrections, however, are either omitted or only superficially dealt with, and the principal subject-matter is the adjustment of unavoidable errors by the method of least squares.
A Treatise on the Adjustment of Observations, with Applications to Geodetic Work and other Measures of Precision.
By T. W. Wright, late Assistant Engineer United States Lake Survey. (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1884.)
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A Treatise on the Adjustment of Observations, with Applications to Geodetic Work and other Measures of Precision . Nature 31, 167 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031167a0
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