A guide for the practical gauger : with a compendium of decimal arithmetick. Shewing briefly I. Many plain and easie ways how to gauge brewers tuns, coppers, backs, &c. also the mash-tun, either in whole, or gradually from inch to inch, with divers new tables for facilitating the work. II. The gauging of any wine, brandy, ale or oyl-cask, either in whole, or in part, with the construction and use of two tables of area's of circles, and Sybant Hantz his table of area's of segments of a circle. III. The mensuration of all manner of superficies, as board, glass, pavement, wainscot, tiling, floors, roofs, &c. also brick-work, timber and stone. Added as an appendix to the former work. Collected and published principally for the service of the farmers of his Majesties revenue of excise. By William Hunt, student in the mathematicks.
1673
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Title
A guide for the practical gauger : with a compendium of decimal arithmetick. Shewing briefly I. Many plain and easie ways how to gauge brewers tuns, coppers, backs, &c. also the mash-tun, either in whole, or gradually from inch to inch, with divers new tables for facilitating the work. II. The gauging of any wine, brandy, ale or oyl-cask, either in whole, or in part, with the construction and use of two tables of area's of circles, and Sybant Hantz his table of area's of segments of a circle. III. The mensuration of all manner of superficies, as board, glass, pavement, wainscot, tiling, floors, roofs, &c. also brick-work, timber and stone. Added as an appendix to the former work. Collected and published principally for the service of the farmers of his Majesties revenue of excise. By William Hunt, student in the mathematicks.
Created/published
London : Printed by John Darby, for Nath. Ponder, at the sign of the Peacock in Chancery-Lane, 1673.
Description
[24], 358, [2]; [2], 29, [1]; [64] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; (8vo)
Associated name
Note
"Tables for the speedy gauging of brewers tuns and casks" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. "An appendix to the Guide for the practical gauger" and "A table of logarithm numbers" each have separate dated title page, pagination, and register.
ESTC staff note
²B7v,²B8r misimposed in all reported copies; pages are numbered 29, 28.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), H3763A
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R202473
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R202473
Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Call number
H3763.5
Folger-specific note
184356. Sig. 2A2 and 2A1 misbound after sig. a1, in that order; Sig. 2A4 and 2A3 misbound after sig. a3, in that order; Pt. 4 bound before Pt.3. Provenance: price inscribed on free endpaper