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Record Nr.

UNISA996387511703316

Autore

Stirrup Thomas

Titolo

The artificers plain scale, or, The carpenters new rule [[electronic resource] ] : in two parts ... : also, how to take heights and distances severall wayes, and to draw the plot of a town or city / / by Thomas Stirrup, Philomat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for Thomas Pirrepont, at the Sun in Pauls Church yard, 1651

Descrizione fisica

[16], 119, [1] p. : ill

Soggetti

Mensuration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Numerous errors in pagination.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Apr: 3".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Nota di contenuto

The first, shewing how to measure all superficies and solids, as timber, stone, board, glasse, &c. geometrically, without the help of arithmetick, it being a new way not heretofore practised -- The second shewing how to measure board and timber instrumentally upon the scale it selfe, without arithmetick or geometry, but what is common to every man.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018