The measurer and gauger's guide. : Containing first, the reasons of the five principal rules of arithmetick, demonstrated by lines; with examples of each rule. Secondly, measuring of surfaces and solids, such as plank, timber, stone, &c. Joiners, carpenters, bricklayers, glasiers, painters and paviours work: each proposition being wrought vulgarly, decimally, practically and instrumentally. A small tract of gauging wine, ale or malt without inches or division. By which any one may gauge ten backs, or floors of malt, in the same time another shall gauge one, by the way now used: altogether new. and submitted to the censure of the commissioners of excise. By J.L. P.M.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lightbody, James.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Early works to 1800.

Mathematics.

Measurement--Early works to 1800.

Measurement.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 39 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Benj. Bragge, at the Black Raven in Paternoster-Row, [1709]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Dedication signed: J. Lightbody.

Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books, Tract Supplement reel E3 a fragment with title page only.

Price from imprint: Price 6 d.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T128127.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.