The description and use of the carpenters-rule: together with the use of the line of numbers (inscribed thereon) in arithmetick and geometry. And the application thereof to the measuring of superficies and solids, gaging of vessels, military orders, interest and annuities: with tables of reduction, &c. : To which is added, the use of a (portable) geometrical sun-dial, with a nocturnal on the backside, for the exact and ready finding the hour of the day and night: and other mathematical conclusions. Also of a universal-dial for the use of seamen or others. With the use of a sliding or glasiers-rule and Mr. White's rule for solid measure. / Collected and fitted to the meanest capacity by J. Browne.

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Title: The description and use of the carpenters-rule: together with the use of the line of numbers (inscribed thereon) in arithmetick and geometry. And the application thereof to the measuring of superficies and solids, gaging of vessels, military orders, interest and annuities: with tables of reduction, &c. : To which is added, the use of a (portable) geometrical sun-dial, with a nocturnal on the backside, for the exact and ready finding the hour of the day and night: and other mathematical conclusions. Also of a universal-dial for the use of seamen or others. With the use of a sliding or glasiers-rule and Mr. White's rule for solid measure. / Collected and fitted to the meanest capacity by J. Browne.
Author: Brown, John, philomath.
Publication: London, :: Printed by W.G. for William Fisher ...,; 1667.
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Subject terms: Mensuration -- Early works to 1800.; Mathematical instruments -- Early works to 1800.; Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
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Cite this Item: "The description and use of the carpenters-rule: together with the use of the line of numbers (inscribed thereon) in arithmetick and geometry. And the application thereof to the measuring of superficies and solids, gaging of vessels, military orders, interest and annuities: with tables of reduction, &c. : To which is added, the use of a (portable) geometrical sun-dial, with a nocturnal on the backside, for the exact and ready finding the hour of the day and night: and other mathematical conclusions. Also of a universal-dial for the use of seamen or others. With the use of a sliding or glasiers-rule and Mr. White's rule for solid measure. / Collected and fitted to the meanest capacity by J. Browne." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A77649.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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A round Pillar is to be measured, whose Diameter at one end is 20 In∣ches, at the other end it is 32 Inches Diameter, and in length 16 Foot (or 192 Inches) the content of the little end is 314. 286, the Area or content of the greater end is 773, 142, which put together make 1087, 428, whose half 543, 714. multiplyed by 192 the length, gives 104393. 143. Cubical Inches which reduced into Feet, is 60 Foot, and 713 cub cal Inches, for the solid content of the Pillar.