Mellificium mensionis, or, The marrow of measuring : wherein a new and ready way is shewn how to measure glazing, painting, plaistering, masonry, joyners, carpenters, and bricklayers works : as also the measuring of land, and all other superficies, and solids, by vulgar arithmetick, without reducing the integers into the least denomination, giving the content of any superficie or solid, consisting of feet, inches, and parts of inches, in a fourth part of the time and labour required by the usual way in vulgar arithmetick : together with some choice principles and problems of geometry conducing thereto : to which is added, an appendix, left under the author's own hand, the contents of which, see in the next page : illustrated with copper cuts the like not heretofore published ... (1727)
Mandey, Venterus, Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679, Tebb, Thomas, King, Thomas, Illidge, Samuel, White, Robert, 1645-1703 · London : Printed for Tho. Tebb ... Sam. Illidge ... and Tho. King ... · leaf 219
Book III. in GEOMETRY. 165 work one half of the fame time, and reft another hal£ it will perform as much (according to the foregoing Lemma.) But the Perimeter of the Circle, whofe Radius is H G, is the double of the Perimeter of the Bafe BC ; and the Circle from H G is made by the Radius HG equal… … in thofe Times, that a Line ought always to be confider’d without any Breadth, that 4s, as nothing ; and therefore that a Superficie could no ways be deferibed by the Motion of a Line ; fo that becaufe of the Prejudices of others, Archimedes was forced to make ufe of a long Demonftration, lead- ing…
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