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 superficies 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 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
Signatures: A⁸ a⁴ B-2A⁸ 2B⁶.; Leaf M3 signed N3.; Engraved portrait and diagrams.; Woodcut diagrams and title ornament.; Type ornament head-pieces.; Title within double-ruled border.; Each book, except the first, has special title leaf.; Errata at end of volume.; Table of contents: Book 1. Of geometry -- book 2. A garden of geometrical roses ... Written in Latin by Thomas Hobbes, and now translated into English by Ven. Mandey -- book 3. Some principles and problems in geometry thought formerly desperate; now briefly explained and demonstrated ... Written in Latin by Thomas Hobbes, and now translated into English by Ven. Mandey -- book 4. Measuring of glazing, painting, plaistering, masonsy [sic], joynery, carpenters, and bricklayers, works. By vulgar arithmetick -- book 5. Measuring of superficial plains, by vulgar arithmetick -- book 6. Measuring of solids.
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