A booke named Tectonicon : brieflie shewing the exact measuring, and speedie reckoning all manner of land, squares, timber, stone, steeples, pillers, globes, &c. Further, declaring the perfect making and large vse of the carpenters ruler, conteining a quadrant geometricall: comprehending also the rare vse of the squire. And in the end a little treatise adioyning, opening the composition and appliancie of an instrument, called the profitable staffe. With other things pleasant and necessarie, most conducible for surueyers, landmeaters, ioyners, carpenters, and masons. Published by Leonard Digges Gentleman, in the yeare of our Lord, 1556.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Digges, Leonard, -approximately 1559.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1544:5.

Standardized Title:

Tectonicon

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Measurement--Early works to 1800.

Measurement.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered leaves, 26 leaves, 2 unnumbered folded tables : illustrations

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Tectonicon.

Place of Publication:

At London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1614.

Notes:

Imperfect; lacks tables; cropped with some loss of text.

Reproduction of the original in the Cambridge University Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1980. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1544:05). s1980 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 6853.

OCLC:

55182531