, Altimetria, the art of taking or measuring altitudes or heights, whether accessible or inaccessible. Or
Altimetria is the part of practical Geometry which respects the theory and practice of measuring both heights and depths, and both in respect of perpendicular and oblique lines.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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