The art of practical measuring, by the sliding rule: Shewing how to measure Round, Square, or other Timber, Stone, Board, Glass, Paving, Painting, and Wainscot. Also Gauging; with Instructions in Decimals, Mr Townley's Method of the Logarithms, and the Use of the Diagonal Scale applied to Gunter's Chain. By Henry Coggeshall, gent. Whereto is added, in a short method, the use of Scamozzi's lines for finding the lengths and angles of hips, rafters, &c. at any pitch, in Square, Bevelling, or Tapering Frames. By John Ham.
- Coggeshall, Henry, 1623-1690.
- Date:
- MDCCLXVII. [1767]
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Also known as
Treatise of measures
Publication/Creation
London : printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, near the Mansion-House, MDCCLXVII. [1767]
Physical description
96p.,plates ; 120.
Contributors
Edition
The seventh edition, carefully corrected.
References note
ESTC T110085
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.