Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening and mensuration ... To which is annexed, an account of the clandestine practice now generally obtaining in mensuration, and particularly the damage sustained in selling timber by measure. And set to view in four parts ... The whole exemplifi'd with above 60 folio copper plates, by the best hands / By Batty Langley.

  • Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.
Date:
1726
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Credit: Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening and mensuration ... To which is annexed, an account of the clandestine practice now generally obtaining in mensuration, and particularly the damage sustained in selling timber by measure. And set to view in four parts ... The whole exemplifi'd with above 60 folio copper plates, by the best hands / By Batty Langley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of Chambers Of Floors Of Hall Chimneys Of Chamber Chimneys Of Chimneys in Studies Of the Funnels of Chimneys Of Joiils, Rafters and Girders Of Stair-Cafes of Materials SECT. IV. Of the Defeription andUfe of :an InfpecltonalTlain Scale, from Folio 8a, to Folio 8d. SECT. V. Of Tlam Trigonometry, from Folio 86, to 97; SECT. VI. Of the Geometrical ConJlruSlion of Draughts, Tlans Maps of Lands, Gardens, Farm!, Building!, &c. ’ P R o B L E M i ^ Field 2 To makeaVhn of any Gar(fen,lTildernefs,d>Cc. inn 3 To make the Map of any Eftate, Farm, Lordfhip, 4 Howto increafe, or decreafe any SDr aught at pleafare j qZ 5 How to deferiae (yind account fof^ the T)iminution of the Breadths of Long Walks, Avenues, &c. 1^04 6 To deferibe {and accouut for'j the ^Diminution of ? Objedis iw <2 Landskip fioy 7 To proportion on anyio6 PART III. SECT. I. Of CrOiS Multiplication 107 SECT.