The art of practical measuring, by the sliding rule : Shewing how to measure Round, Square, or other Timber, Stone, Board, Glass, Paving, Painting, and Wainscot. Also Gauging; with Instructions in Decimals, Mr Townley's Method of the Logarithms, and the Use of the Diagonal Scale applied to Gunter's Chain. By Henry Coggeshall, gent. Whereto is added, in a short method, the use of Scamozzi's lines for finding the lengths and angles of hips, rafters, &c. at any pitch, in Square, Bevelling, or Tapering Frames. By John Ham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coggeshall, Henry, 1623-1690.

Standardized Title:

Treatise of measures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Measuring instruments--Early works to 1800.

Measuring instruments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96p.,plates )

Edition:

The seventh edition, carefully corrected.

Other Title:

Art of practical measuring, by the sliding rule

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, near the Mansion-House, MDCCLXVII. [1767]

Notes:

First published as 'A treatise of measures'.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T110085.

OCLC:

642275812