The art of measuring, or, The carpenters new rule described and explained : furnished with variety of scales, fitted for the more speedy mensuration of divers superficies and solids, with all necessary requisits appertaining thereunto, as a plain and easie introduction to the principals of geometry, which is the ground and foundation of all kind of mensuration : together with the description and use of the logarithmical tables of proportions in arithmetick and geometry, also their particular application in the measuring of superficies and solids ... / composed and published by W. Leybourne ... ; unto which is annexed a supplement, containing the description of the line of numbers, with its use explained and illustrated in divers practical examples of mensuration, by John Wiblin ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carpentry--Mathematics.

Carpentry.

Carpentry--Tables.

Genre:

Tables.

Tables (Data)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 parts) : illustrations

Other Title:

Art of measuring.

Carpenters new rule described and explained.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Richard Jones ..., 1669.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

"A supplement, wherein is contained and plainly demonstrated the use of the scale of logarithms" has special t.p.

Reproduction of original in British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 215:10) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing L1903

Arber's Term cat. I 19

Contains:

Wiblin, John. Supplement wherein is contained and plainly demonstrated the use of the scale of logarithms.

OCLC:

12348709

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