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 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. By Henry Coggeshall, gent. The fourth edition. To which is added, in a concise method, the use of Scamozzi's lines, for finding the lengths and angles of hips and rafters, &c. at any pitch; illustrated by schemes done from copper plates, in frames, that are square, bevelling, or tapering. The whole carefully revised, and where deficient supplied, that it may be plain and easy to the meanest capacity, by John Ham.

Date:

1729