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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

By: Language: English Publication details: London printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, near the Mansion-House MDCCLXVII. [1767]Edition: The seventh edition, carefully correctedDescription: 96p., plates 12oUniform titles:
  • Treatise of measures
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  • Condition reviewed 20120620 condition level 1
Summary: First published as "A treatise of measures".