An introduction to mensuration and practical geometry / [John Bonnycastle].

  • Bonnycastle, John, approximately 1760-1821
Date:
1798
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An introduction to mensuration and practical geometry / [John Bonnycastle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    down for his fharc ? Anf The 1Jl, 4.4508, 2d. 4.8400, 3d. 5.3535, 4th. 6.0765, 5/^.7.2079, 9.3935, and the \]th. 22.6778. 18. A gentleman has a garden 100 feet long, and So feet broad, and a gravel walk is to be made of an equal width half round it: what mull the width of the walk be fo as to take up juft half the ground ? Anf. 25.968feet. 19. In the midft of a meadow well ftored with grafs, I took juft an acre to tether my afs; How long muft the cord be, that feeding all round, He may’nt graze lefs or more than an acre of ground? Anf 39.25073yards. 20. A maltfter has a kiln that is 16 feet 6 inches fquare ; now' he wants to pull it down, and build a new one that will dry three times as much at a time as the old one did: what muft be the length of its fide ? Anf. 28 feet 7 inches. 21. If a round ciftern be 26.3 inches diameter, and 52.3 inches deep: how many inches diameter muft a ciftern be to hold twice the quantity, the depth being the fame ? Anf 37.19 inches. 22. A May-pole, whofe top was broken off by a blaft cf wind, ftruck the ground at 15 feet diitance from the top of the pole: what was the height of the whole May-pole, fuppofing the length of the broken piece to be 39 feet ? Anf 75 feet. 23. What will the diameter of a globe be, when the lolidity and fuperficial content thereof are equal to each other ? _ Jnf 6. 24. How many three inch cubes can be cut out of a 12 inch cube? Anf.S4 25. A farmer borrowed part of a hay-rick of his ncignbour, which meafured 6 feet every way, and. paid him back again by two equal cubical pieces, M 2 each