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 Superficics; as, Board, Glass, Plaistering Painting, Wainscotting, Tyleing, Paving, Land, &c. both by the Rule and Arithmetick. Whereunto is now added, the description of Scamozzi's lines, with their use in finding the lengths and angles of rafters, Hips, Collar-Beams, &c. By J. Good, Teacher of the Mathematicks Carefully corrected, and much enlarg'd by J. Atkinson, Sen.
- Good, John, active 1706-1733.
- Date:
- 1733
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London : printed for W. Mount and T. Page, at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1733.
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96p.,plate ; 80.
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ESTC T90169
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