The art of measuring, containing the description and explanation of the carpenters new rule : Fnrnished [sic] with variety of scales. Fitted for the more speedy mensuration of superficies and solids. Also certain geometrical problems, a table of logarithms to 10000, and some uses of the same exemplified in arithmetick and geometry: but more particularly applied to the mensuration of superficies and solids, as board, glass, pavement, wainscot, plaistering, tyling, timber, stone, brick-work, and gauging of cask. The third edition with additions, by W. Leybourn. To which is added a supplement; being the description of the line of numbers, with its use, in divers practical examples of mensuration, of singular use for work-men, artificers, and other ingenious persons delighting therein.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
printed for Rich. Northcot next St. Peters Alley, Cornhill, and at the Marriner and Anchor upon Fish-street Hill, near London Bridge,
1681.
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Item Description: | "A supplement, wherein is contained and plainly demonstrated the use of the scale of logarithms" by John Wiblin, has separate title page dated 1677; pagination is separate. With engraved frontispiece. Quire K has extra leaf; on recto: Place this leaf at the latter end of the tables of logarithms. Reproduction of the original at the British Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([18], 39, [1], 32, [98], 145-192, 157-162, [2], 44, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plate : illustrations (tables) |