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A key to the modern sliding-rule. : Containing the description and exlpanation [!] of the various purposes, of that valuable instrument, as now used by His Majesty's officers of customs, excise, &c. and also of two improved sliding-rules, for speedily and accurately gauging and measuring solids and superfices at one operation. Not to be performed by any other instrument yet constructed. Together with the advantages of a new instrument of sliding sines and tangents in plane and spherical trigonometry

Title:A key to the modern sliding-rule. : Containing the description and exlpanation [!] of the various purposes, of that valuable instrument, as now used by His Majesty's officers of customs, excise, &c. and also of two improved sliding-rules, for speedily and accurately gauging and measuring solids and superfices at one operation. Not to be performed by any other instrument yet constructed. Together with the advantages of a new instrument of sliding sines and tangents in plane and spherical trigonometry
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Note:Printed for the author; and sold by G. Kearsly [etc.], 1768
  
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