| Title: | Mellificium mensionis |
| Alternate title: | Mellificium mensionis, or, The marrow of measuring : wherein a new and ready way is shewn how to measure glazing, painting, plaistering, masonry, joyners, carpenters, and bricklayers works : as also the measuring of land, and all other superficies, and solids, by vulgar arithmetick, without reducing the integers into the least denomination, giving the content of any superficie or solid, consisting of feet, inches, and parts of inches, in a fourth part of the time and labour required by the usual way in vulgar arithmetick : together with some choice principles and problems of geometry conducing thereto : to which is added, an appendix, left under the author's own hand, the contents of which, see in the next page : illustrated with copper cuts the like not heretofore published ... |
| Alternate title: | Marrow of measuring |
| Author: | Mandey, Venterus |
| Author: | White, Robert, 1645-1703 |
| Author: | Illidge, Samuel |
| Author: | King, Thomas |
| Author: | Tebb, Thomas |
| Author: | Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 |
| Note: | Printed for Tho. Tebb ... Sam. Illidge ... and Tho. King ..., 1727 |
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| Subject: | Engraving -- England -- 18th century |
| Subject: | Geometry -- Early works to 1800 |
| Subject: | Measurement -- Early works to 1800 |
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