The boatswains art, or, The comp[l]ete boat-swain : wherein is shewed a true proportion for the masting, yarding, and rigging of any ship whose length, breadth, and depth is known, with rules for the sizes and lengths of all sorts of rigging that belongs to any ship : also the use of an opening scale, that if the length of the main mast be put upon it with a pair of compasses, you may measure upon the scale the lengths and thickness of all the other masts and yards, and also the sizes, the lengths and the number of fathoms of every size for the rigging of any ship without altering the scale : also here is added a plain and easie rule for rigging any ship by the length of its own masts and yards / by Henry Bond ...

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Bond, Henry.

Series:

• Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Masts and rigging.
• Naval architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages, 21 pages, 1 unnumbered page)

Other Title:

• Boatswains art.
• Complete boat swain.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by W. Godbid for William Fisher ... and Benjamin Hurlock ..., 1670.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

• "The scale is made in brass or wood by Joseph Hone on Tower-Wharf."
• Reproduction of original in the British Library.
• Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1521:5) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing B3561

OCLC:

12752853

Access Restriction:

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