KREUTZINGER Joseph - Topography. Measurement and photograph of the country, cartography and military significance of the terrain [1928].

Warsaw 1928. 17x24.5 cm, pp. 339, black and white illustrations in the text, black and white photographs (XVIII) on separate pages, 7 fold-out appendices(should be 8 - appendix #5 is missing). Good condition (traces of flooding on the cover - mainly at the spine, isolated page soiling).

In contents: Triangulation. Topography. Photogrammetry. Cartography (the concept of cartographic representations, the content of the map, the representation of the terrain, the editing of topographic special and overview maps, the basics of the cartography of extra-aboriginal Poland, the work of the Military Geographical Institute, new cartographic works of neighboring countries, about the ways of reproducing maps). Terrain science (orienting oneself in the field, reading maps, measuring on plans and maps, making profiles and fields of vision, sketches, describing the terrain - terminology and intelligence). Military significance of terrain (mountainous terrain, swampy areas, communications, straits, obstacles, land cover, inhabited localities, terrain in combat). Modern means of warfare from the point of view of terrain, time of day and year (night and fog, chemical warfare, observation, aerial intelligence, tanks, effect of terrain on fire c.m., means of artillery intelligence, Geographic Service during war, geology in warfare). Appendices (barometric leveling, pantograph, plastic model of the terrain, determination of the meridian by observations of the corresponding elevations of the sun, division and conversion of angles).