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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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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Brown, John, philomath.
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London, :: Printed by W.G. for William Fisher ...,
1667.
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Mensuration -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
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"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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Page 102

To Gage any round Tun.

First, If it have equal Diameters at the Top and Bottom, then it is mea∣sured as a Cylender, and the propor∣tion between a Cube and a Cylender is as 11 to 14 and the contrary, so that a Cylender 12 Inches high and 12 Inches Diameter, is equal to 11/14 of a Cube 12 Inches every way.

Or in Numbers, as 1728, to 1358 ferè.

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