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 Casles. VI. A Table of Area's in Malt Bushels, &c. To which is added, An Appendix for measuring Boards, Timber, Stone, &c. With Rules and Examples for measuring most sorts of supersicial and solid Figures: Also surveying of Land. 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--Early works to 1800.

Gaging.

Brewing industry--Early works to 1800.

Brewing industry.

Wine and wine making--Early works to 1800.

Wine and wine making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([12],300p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

The fifth edition, corrected by the author.

Other Title:

General gauger

Place of Publication:

London : printed for John and Paul Knapton, at the Crown in Ludgate-Street, MDCCXXXVII. [1737]

Notes:

Pagination from NUC.

Reproduction of original from John Rylands University Library of Manchester.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N18346.

OCLC:

642155701