The compleat ship-wright : plainly and demonstratively teaching the proportion used by experienced ship-wrights, according to their custom of building, both geometrically and arithmetically performed : to which are added certain propositions in geometry, the use of a diagonall scale, to draw a draught, with the making, graduating, or marking of a bend of moulds, and ordering of the same : the extraction of the square root, with a table of squares : also, a way of rowing of ships, by heaving at the cap-stain, useful in any ship becalmed, with other things useful in that art /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bushnell, Edmund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Printed by R.H. for William Fisher ... T. Passinger ... and E. Smith ..., 1688.
Edition:The fifth edition.
Series:Early English books online.
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