Measuring made easy: or, the description and use of Coggeshall's sliding-rule. Containing Instructions for Measuring all Manner of Timber, both by the Common Way, and the true Way: With Directions for taking the Dimensions of Trees, and the Allowance for Bark, &c. perform'd both by the Rule, and by Arithmetick; by which may be measured all manner of Superficies; as, Board, Glass, Plaistering, Painting, Wainscotting, Tyling, Paving, Land, &c. both by the Rule and Arithmetick. To which is now added, the description of Seamozzi's lines, with their Use in finding the Lengths and Angles of Rafters, Hips, Collar-Beams, &c. By J. Good, Teacher of the Mathematics, Carefully corrected, and much enlarg'd by J. Atkinson, Sen.

Date:

1751