The general gauger : or, the principles and practice of gauging beer, wine, and malt. Containing I. Decimal Arithmetick, the Extraction of the Square and Cube-Roots, and the Use of them in the Way of Gauging. II. The Necessary Problems in Geometry relating to Gauging and Measuring. III. The Use of the Sliding-Rule in Measuring Timber, and other Surfaces and Solids. IV. The Theory and Practice of Gauging in all the Varieties, perform'd by pen and Sliding-Rule. Each Proposition being Wrought in Beer, Wine, and Malt. V. The Construction of the Table of Segments, and all the Varieties of Ullaging of Casks. VI. A Table of Area's in Malt-Bushels, &c. The Whole laid down more methodically than any Performance of this Nature yet extant. By Mr. John Dougharty, Teacher of the Mathematicks at Worcester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dougharty, John, 1677-1755.

Standardized Title:

General-gauger

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gaging.

Measurement--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([12],240p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

The fourth edition, corrected by the author.

Other Title:

General gauger

Place of Publication:

London : printed for James and John Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCXXVII. [1727]

Notes:

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T137672.

OCLC:

642405430