Example.
At 6 ½ Foot length and four Inches girt, what is the Content.
Set 12 to 65 or 6 ½ in the second length, so against 4 you have ••2/100 a Foot, which is not ¾.
So much for round Timber.
Timber-measure by a line of more ease, dispatch and exactness, then any other way now in use, by a double scale after the countrey-measure, by the length and quarter of the circumference in round timber, and by the length and side of the square in squared timber, and square equal in flat timber : as also stone-measure and gauging of vessels by the same near and exact way, likewise a diagonal scale of 100 parts in a quarter of an inch, very easie both to make and use / by Hen. Coggeshall.
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- Timber-measure by a line of more ease, dispatch and exactness, then any other way now in use, by a double scale after the countrey-measure, by the length and quarter of the circumference in round timber, and by the length and side of the square in squared timber, and square equal in flat timber : as also stone-measure and gauging of vessels by the same near and exact way, likewise a diagonal scale of 100 parts in a quarter of an inch, very easie both to make and use / by Hen. Coggeshall.
- Author
- Coggeshall, Henry, 1623-1690.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for the author and are to be sold by Robert Pricke ...,
- 1677.
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- Mensuration -- Early works to 1800.
- Slide-rule.
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"Timber-measure by a line of more ease, dispatch and exactness, then any other way now in use, by a double scale after the countrey-measure, by the length and quarter of the circumference in round timber, and by the length and side of the square in squared timber, and square equal in flat timber : as also stone-measure and gauging of vessels by the same near and exact way, likewise a diagonal scale of 100 parts in a quarter of an inch, very easie both to make and use / by Hen. Coggeshall." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33609.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2025.