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• Lightbody, James: Every man his own gauger wherein not only the artist is shown a more ready and exact method of gauging than any hitherto extant, but the most ignorant, who can but read English, and tell twenty in figures, is taught to find the content of any sort of cask or vessel, either full, or in part full, and to know if they be right siz'd : also what a pipe, hogshead, &c. amounts to at the common rate and measure they buy or sell at : with several useful tables to know the content of any vessel by, likewise a table shewing the price of any commodity, from one pound to an hundred weight, and the contrary : to which is added, the art of brewing beer, ale, mum, of fining, preserving and botling brew'd liquors, of making the most common physical ales now in use, of making several fine English wines : the vintners art of fining, curing, preserving all sorts of wines ... together with the compleat coffee-pan, teaching how to make coffee, tea, chocolate ... / by J. Lightbody ... (London : Printed for G. C. ..., [1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Lightbody, James: Lux stereometriae: or, The art of measuring surfaces and solids, theoretically and practically demonstrated; and apply'd to the most difficult cases in gauging, after a new and more exact method, than any yet practis'd. To which is prefix'd a short view of decimal arithmetick, and the extraction of the square root: together with a description of the several sorts of superficial and solid bodies: and a table for finding the solid content of round timber, &c. (Printed for F. Hvbbart and H. Newman, 1701) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lightbody, James: The mariners jewel; or, A pocket companion for the ingenious Being of more general use for officers, seamen, carpenters, boatswains, pursers and stewards, then any thing yet published. Containing an alphabetical dictionary of all the naval terms; a general pay table; with a table of boatswain stores for each rank of shop; the proportion of prizes, with many other useful things both decimal and vulgarly demonstrated from a manuscript of Sir John Narbrough's and methodiz'd by James Lightbody, P.M. (London : printed for Robert Whitledge, and sold by Alexamder Sims at the Bible in Beet-street in Hatcliff High-Way, 1695), also by John Narbrough (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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