A booke named Tectonicon, brieflie shewing the exact measuring, and speedie reckoning all manner of land, squares, timber, stone, steeples, pillers, globes, etc. ... With other things pleasant and necessarie, most conducible for surueyers, landmeaters, ioyners, carpenters, and masons (1605)
Digges, Leonard, d. 1571? · London, Imprinted by F. Kyngston · leaf 30
10 w«3i TO THE READER. T commeth commonly to parte,that Carpenters, Mafons, andfuch like Artificers, are put ei-ther to meafurc timber euericway fquare, or fquared logges,broader on the one fide than onthe other: yea,many times mu-tilate or vnpeifeelftuffe. Some-times threejfiue^enjOr twentic…
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![An illustration from The geomancie / of Maister Christopher Cattan Gentleman. A booke, no lesse pleasant and recreatiue, then of a wittie inuention, to knovve all thinges, past, present, and to come. Whereunto is annexed the wheele of Pythagoras. Translated out of French into our English tongue [by Francis Sparry]. (1591)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/wellcome-wellcome_b30337860-168-2.webp)
