The art of practical measuring, by the sliding rule : Shewing, how to measure round, square or other timber, stone, board, glass, paving, painting, 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, rasters, &c. at any pitch, in square, bevelling or tapering frames. By John Ham. And to render the book more compleat, in this edition is added, a compendium of practical geometry and the principles of plain trigonometry, with the application thereof, by G. Thomson, A.M.
| Author/creator | Coggeshall, Henry |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | The fifth edition, carefully revised. |
| Publication Info | London : Printed for John Oswald, at the Rose and Crown, in the Poultry, near Stocks-Market, MDCCXXXII. [1732] |
| Description | 12 unnumbered pages, 90, 2 unnumbered pages;5 unnumbered pages, 96-156 pages, plates ; 12⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Treatise of measures |
| General note | First published as 'A treatise of measures'. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library. |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, T200534. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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