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• Mellificium mensionis: or, The marrow of measuring, : wherein a new and ready way is shewn how to measure glazing, painting, plastering, masonry, joyners, carpenters and brick-layers works. As also the measuring of land and all other snperficies [sic] and solids, by vulgar arithmetick, without reducing the integers into the least denomination; giving the content of any superficies or solid, consisting of feet, inches, and parts of inches, in a fourth part of the time and labour required by the usal [sic] way in vulgar arithmetick. Together with some choice principles and problems of geometry conducing thereto. The whole treatise being comprized in six books, and illustrated with copper cuts. An account whereof is given in the Epistle to the reader; the like not heretofore published. /
  by: Mandey, Venterus
  Published: (1698)
• Mellificium mensionis: or, The marrow of measuring. Wherein a new and ready way is shewn how to measure glazing, painting, plastering, masonry, joyners, carpenters, and bricklayers works. As also the measuring of land, and all other superfices and solids, by vulgar arithmetick, without reducing the integers into the least denomination; giving the content of any superfices 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 arithmetic. Together with some choice principles and problems of geometry conducing thereto. The whole treatise being comprized in six books, and illustrated with copper cuts. An account whereof is given in the epistle to the reader; the like not heretofore published. By Venterus Mandey.
  by: Mandey, Venterus
  Published: (1682)
• The Usher. Comprising arithmetic in whole numbers; federal money; decimal and vulgar fractions; a description and use of Goggeshall's sliding rule; some uses of Gunter's scale; superficial and solid measuring; geometrical definitions and problems; surveying; the surveyor's pocket companion, or trigonometry made easy; a table of sines; a table of tangents; miscellany, tables of the weight and value of gold coins. Calculated and designed for youth
  by: Little, Ezekiel, 1762-1840
  Published: (1799)
• The measurer's guide: or, the whole art of measuring made short, plain and easie : Shewing, 1. How to measure any plain superficies. 2. How to measure all sorts of regular solids. 3. The art of gaugeing. 4. How to measure artificers work, viz. carpenters, joyners, plasterers, painters, paviers, glaziers, bricklayers, tylors, &c. of singuler use to all gentlmen, artificers and others. By John Barker.
  by: Barker, John, writer on fortification
  Published: (1692)
• The carpenters rule made easie: or, The art of measuring superficies and solids; : also a second way being the ground-work for measuring timber, stone, boards, glass, &c. : With the table of account, much enlarged, performing multiplications and division, in arithmetick and geometry, by inspection into the golden rule, and rule reverse. It being of excellent use for carpenters, joyners, masons, [double brace] glasiers, painters, sawyers. Or any that shall have occasion to buy or sell, perform'd by tables for that purpose. /
  by: Darling, John, 17th cent
  Published: (1694)