Author: MANDEY VENTERUS
Title: Mellificium Mensionis or the Marrow of Measuring Wherein a New and Ready Way is Shown How to Measure Glazing, Painting, Plastering, Masonry, Joyners, Carpenters and Bricklayers Works [ Six Books in One Volume ]
Description: London, London : Printed for Tho. Tebb, in Little-Britain, Sam. Illidge, under Serle's Gate .. and Tho. King, in Petty-France M.DCC.XXVII [1727]. 1727, Fourth Edition. Quarter Calf, 8vo. Book measures 7 1/2 x 5 inches. Collation, 487,[1]pp, engraved frontis, 3 single page, 1 half page, 4 folding plates, numerous text diagrams. 1 folding plate defective, lacking 4 plates?, and half title. Bound in modern quarter calf, cloth boards, raised bands, gilt lines, leather title labels. Binding in good clean firm condition. Internally, plates are generally worn,some tears and browing. Pages in good condition. A good solid copy. Contents of the volume 1. Of geometry -- Book 2. A garden of geometrical roses, or, Some propositions being hitherto hid, are now made known / written in Latin by Thomas Hobbes and done 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 made into English by Ven. Mandey -- Book 4. Measuring of glazing, painting, plaistering .. by vulgar arithmetick, without reducing the integers into the least demonination / by Ven. Mandey -- Book 5. Measuring of superficial plains .. : together with directions for measuring of land / by Ven. Mandey -- Book 6. Measuring of solids / by Ven Mandey -- The appendix : treating in the first place of the measuring of chimneys reformed / by Ven. Mandey -- Of measuring superficies and solids.

Keywords: geometry. thomas hobbs.


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