The art of practical measuring : easily perform'd, by a two foot rule, which slides to a foot; on which is the best measure of round timber the common way. Also, the true measure of round, square, or other timber or stone, board, glass, paving, painting, wainscot, &c. gauging of cask, and gauging and inching of tuns. Containing, brief instructions in decimal arithmetick. The best way of using the logarithms according to Mr. Townley. The use of a new diagonal scale, of 100 parts in a quarter of an inch. applied to Gunter's chain. And lastly, some useful directions in dialling, not hitherto published. By H.C. Gent.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Coggeshall, Henry, 1623-1690.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1756:40.

Standardized Title:

Treatise of measures.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Measuring instruments--Early works to 1800.

Measuring instruments.

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 110 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Thomas Bennet, at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1690.

Notes:

H.C. = Henry Cloggeshall.

First published with title: A treatise of measures.

Final [3] pages = advertisment.

Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1987. 1 microfilm reel 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 1756:40). s1987 miun a

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) C4890A.

OCLC:

1085252421