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 Areas in Malt Bushels, &c. Vii. An Appendix for mensuring Boards, Timber, Stone, &c. With Rules and Examples for measuring most Sorts of superficial and solid Figures: Also Surveying of Land. The Whole laid down more methodically than any Performance of this Nature yet extant. By John Dougharty, Teacher of the Mathematicks at Worcester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dougharty, John, 1677-1755.

Standardized Title:

General-gauger

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wine and wine making--Gaging and testing--Early works to 1800.

Wine and wine making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([12],420p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

The sixth edition, corrected by the author. To which is added, a table ..

Other Title:

General gauger

Place of Publication:

London : printed for John and Paul Knapton, in Ludgate-Street, MDCCL. [1750]

Notes:

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T109551.

OCLC:

642274478