Marine architecture: or, the ship-builder's assistant: containing directions for carrying on a ship, from the first laying of the keel, to her actual going to sea. Shewing, I. The Proportions used by Experienced Ship-Wrights in Building, both Geometrically and Arithmetically performed. Also the Making, Marking, and Ordering a Bend of Moulds: With a large Table of the Square Root, and Directions concerning the Measuring of Ships. II. Directions for Masting and Yarding of any Ship, or making both in a just Proportion to the Ship, and to one another; both as to Length and Thickness. With Tables of the Weights and Sizes of Anchors and Cables, according to a new Establishment. III. The Boatswain's Art; or an Essay upon Rigging: Shewing how to Rigg a Ship, or to know the Length and Thickness of every Rope exactly; with Cable and Cordage Tables, to know, by Inspection, the Weight of any Rope, whose Length and Thickness is given, and the Construction or Making of the said Tables; with some Directions for cutting out Sails. The whole illustrated with schemes and draughts, to render it intelligible to all capacities.

Date:

M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]