The art of practical measuring easily perform'd, by a two foot rule, which slides to a foot. On which is the best measure of round timber the common way. Also, the true Measure of Round, Square, or other Timber or Stone, Board, Glass, Paving, Painting, Wainscot, &c. Gauging of Cask, and Gauging and Inching of Tuns. Containing brief instructions in decimal arithmetick. The best way of using the Logarithms according to Mr. Townley. The Use of a new Diagonal Scale, of 100 parts in a quarter of an Inch, applied to Gunter's Chain. And lastly, some useful directions in dialling, not hitherto Published. By H. C. gent.

  • Coggeshall, Henry, 1623-1690.
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1706
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Treatise of measures

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London : printed for Thomas Bennet, at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1706.

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[10],106[i.e.114]p.,plate : ill. ; 120.

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The third edition, corrected.

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ESTC T83405

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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