Excerpt from The Compleat Measurer, or the Whole Art of Measuring: In Two Parts; The First Part Teaching Decimal Arithmetick, With the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots; The Second Part Teaching to Measure All Sorts of Superficies and Solids, by Decimals, by Cross-Multiplication and by Scale and Compasses
The Scale {uppoe'd to be ufed in all the Operations, is the Line of Numbers, commonly eall'd, Graner's Line, which is upon the ordinary, T we Feet, or'eighteen inch-rules, commonly ufed by the Carpeneers.
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