Mensuration - Early works to 1800
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The carpenter's rule made easy or, the art of measuring superficies and solids. Also a second way, ... With a table of account, ... By John Darling. And also a treatise of practical gauging. By Heber Lands. The eighth edition, carefully revised and corrected; ... By Thomas Haselden, ..
Darling, John, active 17th centuryDate: 1738- E-books
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The carpenters rule made easie Or, The art of measuring superficies and solids: also a second way being the ground-work for measuring timber, stone, board, glass, &c. With a table of account, much enlarged performing multiplication and division, in arithmetick and geometry, by inspiction into the golden rule, and rule reverse. It being of excellent use for carpenters, joyners, masons, glasiers, painters, sawyers, or any that shall have occasion to buy or sell, perform'd by tables for that purpose. By John Darling.
Darling, John, active 17th centuryDate: 1709- E-books
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The compleat measurer Or, The whole art of measuring. In two parts. The first part teaching decimal arithmetick, with the extraction of the square and cube roots. And also the multiplication of feet and inches, commonly call'd cross-multiplication. The second part teaching to measure all sorts of superficies and solids, by decimals, by cross-multiplication, and by scale and compasses. Also the works of several artificers relating to building; and the measuring of board and timber: shewing the common errors. And some practical questions. The fourth edition; to which is added, an appendix, 1. Of gauging. 2. Of land-measuring. Very useful for all tradesmen, especially carpenters, bricklayers, plaisterers, painters, joiners, glasiers, masons, &c. By William Hawney, philomath. Recommended by the Rev. Dr. John Harris, F.R.S.
Hawney, William, fl. 1710-1750.Date: [1730?]- E-books
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A treatise on mensuration, both in theory and practice . By Charles Hutton.
Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823.Date: 1770- E-books
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A treatise of practical geometry . In three parts. By the late Dr David Gregory, Sometime Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Edinburgh, and afterwards Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford. Translated from the Latin. With additions.
Gregory, David, 1659-1708.Date: M,DCC,LXIII. [1763]