The manner of raising, ordering, and improving forest-trees. With directions how to plant, make, and keep woods, walks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c. Also rules and tables shewing how the ingenious planter may measure superficial figures, divide woods or land, and measure timber and other solid bodies, either by arithmetick or geometry; with the uses of that excellent line, the line of numbers, by several new examples; and many other rules, useful for most men / Illustrated with figures, proper for avenues, walks, and lawns, &c. By Moses Cook.

  • Cook, Moses.
Date:
1724
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Credit: The manner of raising, ordering, and improving forest-trees. With directions how to plant, make, and keep woods, walks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c. Also rules and tables shewing how the ingenious planter may measure superficial figures, divide woods or land, and measure timber and other solid bodies, either by arithmetick or geometry; with the uses of that excellent line, the line of numbers, by several new examples; and many other rules, useful for most men / Illustrated with figures, proper for avenues, walks, and lawns, &c. By Moses Cook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    proportionable to them; but the .firft and laft are moft ufeful, and are many times good Proofs one of the other. Example i. If 2 of any thing coft 8 s. then 6 will coft 24 4*. for if you extend your Compaffes from 2 to 8, that fame diftance will reach from 6 to 24. the Queftion ; or if you extend your Compaffes from the firft number to-the third number, that fame Extent will reach from the fecond number to the fourth, which was the thing fought* Extend your Compaffes from 2 to 6, that fame Extent will reach from 8 to 24, the Queftion as be* lore, N Example 2. It you fell your Timber by the Load, that is, 50 feet to the Load, at any price, to know what it 1 is a foot; as if you fell for 25 4. the Load, what is that a foot ? Firft, know how many Pence is in 25 4. be- caufe your feet will coft Pence and not a Shilling : 25 4. is 300 d. then the Rule orders it felf thus, as 50 to 300, fo is 1 to 6] therefore extend your Com- paffes from 50 to 300, that diftance will reach from 1 to 6. So then 1 foot cofts 6 d. the Queftion. If you would know the Price of two Feet, then fet one Point of your Compaffes on 2, the otherwill reach to 12, and fo many Pence twAo feet will coft: and \o of any other Sum, ' Example 3, If a Load of Timber, or 50 feet of Timber, &c. be fold for 37 4. 6d. that is 450 pence, what is that for one foot ? Set one Point of your Compaffes on 50, extend the other to 450, that fame Extent will feach from 1 to 9, and fo many pence will 1 foot coft, 37 s* f d. the Load. And if you wrould know what 6 feet will coft, the fame diftance of your Compaffes will reach from 6 to 54, and fo many pence 6 feel will coft, at the aforefaid price.