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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-013.mrc:162089480:1739
Source marc_columbia
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn127133980
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100 1 $aCoggeshall, Henry,$d1623-1690.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85116453
245 14 $aThe art of practical measuring easily perform'd :$bby a two foot rule, which slides to a foot; on which is the best measure of round timber the common way. Also the true measure of round, square, or other timber or stone, board, glass, paving, painting, wainscot, &c. gauging of cask, and gauging and inching of tuns. Containing brief instructions in decimal arithmetick. The best way of using the logarithms according to Mr. Townley. The use of a new diagonal scale, of 100 parts in a quarter of an inch, applied to Gunter's chain. And lastly, some useful directions in dialling, not hitherto published.
250 $aThe third edition corrected and amended,$bby Henry Coggeshall, gent.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted by H. Clark for Richard King,$c1722.
300 $a6 p. l., 113, [1] p., 1 l. incl. tables :$bfold. plate. ;$c16 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aFirst issued in 1682 with title: A treatise of measuring by a two-foot-rule, which slides to a foot. There was a second ed. issued in 1722 identical with this 3d ed.
500 $a"The Coggeshall slide rule was popular in England as late as the ... 19th century."--Cajori History of the logarithmic slide rule, p. 20.
752 $aGreat Britain$bEngland$dLondon.$2naf
852 80 $brbx$kSMITH$h510.78$i1722 C65