The art of practical measuring easily perform'd

by 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

The third edition corrected and amended, by Henry Coggeshall, gent.
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The art of practical measuring easily perform'd

by 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

The third edition corrected and amended, by Henry Coggeshall, gent.

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Edition Notes

First 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.

"The Coggeshall slide rule was popular in England as late as the ... 19th century."--Cajori History of the logarithmic slide rule, p. 20.

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6 p. l., 113, [1] p., 1 l. incl. tables
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113

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OL45022992M
OCLC/WorldCat
127133980

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