The description and use of the carpenters-rule : together with The use of the line of numbers commonly called Gunters-line : applyed to the measuring of all superficies and solids, as board, glass, plaistering, wainscoat, tyling, paving, flooring, &c., timber, stone, square on round, gauging of vessels, &c. : also military orders, simple and compound interest, and tables of reduction, with the way of working by arithmatick in most of them : together with the use of the glasiers and Mr. White's sliding-rules, rendred plain and easie for ordinary capacities / by John Brown.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Brown, John (Philomath)

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1089:4.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Measurement--Early works to 1800.

Measurement.

Mathematical instruments.

Physical Description:

205 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for W. Fisher and R. Mount ..., 1688.

Notes:

Special t.p. (p. [169]): The use of the line of numbers on a sliding (or glasiers) rule in arithmatick & geometry ... / first drawn by Mr. White ; ... made easie and useful by John Brown. London printed : [s.n.], 1688.

Imperfect: some pages tightly bound, with slight loss of print.

Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1980. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1089:4)

Cited in:

Wing B5040

Contains:

Use of the line of numbers on a sliding (or glasiers) rule in arithmatick & geometry.

OCLC:

16263527