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 46
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