A treatise on ship-building and navigation. In three parts, wherein the theory, practice, and application of all the necessary instruments are perspicuously handled. With the construction and use of a new invented shipwright's sector ... Also tables of the sun's declination, of meridional parts ... To which is added by way of appendix, an English abridgment of another treatise on naval architecture, lately published at Paris by M. Duhamel .. (1754)
Murray, Mungo, d. 1770, Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782. Treatise on ship-building · London, Printed for D. Henry and R. Cave, for the author · leaf 381
Chat. IX. Of the Rcj:ila>ii:e of Tlni^s. 57 water it is not worth the rcfjiflrding. But then by tliis calculation wodifcovcr thit the ftiip is too lean before \ ibr whereas the fore part ihouldexceed the alter ptrt by 30 tuns, we find, by this calculation, that the afterpart exceeds the fore…
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