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Record Nr.

UNISA996396316503316

Autore

Bond Henry

Titolo

The boat-swains art, or, The compleat boat-swain [[electronic resource] ] : wherein is shewed a true proportion for the masting, yarding, and rigging of any ship whose length, breadth, and depth is known, with rules for the sizes and lengths of all sorts of rigging that belongs to any ship : also the use of an opening scale, that if the length of the main mast be put upon it with a pair of compasses, you may measure upon the scale the lengths and thickness of all the other masts and yards, and also the sizes, the lengths, and the numbers of fathoms of every size for the rigging of any ship, without altering the scale : also here is added a plain and easy rule for rigging any ship by the length of its own masts and yards / / by Henry Bond .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Richard Mount ..., 1699

Descrizione fisica

[2], 31 p

Soggetti

Masts and rigging

Naval architecture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The scale is made in brass or wood by Walter and John Henshaw near the Hermitage-Bridge."

Half title page reads: The boat-swains art, or, The compleat boat-swain.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018