| Title | The artificers plain scale: or The carpenters new rule : In two parts. 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. Also how to take heights and distances several ways, and to draw the plot of a town or city, vvhereunto is added an appendix couteining [sic] the description of the line of numbers, and the use thereof in measuring of board, and timber &c. By Thomas Stirrup. Philomat, [sic] |