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The ship-builder's assistant;, or, marine architecture. Containing I. Decimals, ... II. Observations on the nature and value of timber, ... III. The methods of drawing plans of ships, ... IV. Directions for making masts and yards in just proportion to the ship, ... V. The boatswains art: ... The whole revised, corrected, and illustrated with many copper-plates

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1784.
Call number: 359294
Creator: Sutherland, William (approximately 1685-1740)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (4to)
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The ship builder's assistant,, or marine architecture: (Revised and improved) Containing I. The method of extracting the square and cube roots, geometry and mensuration; ... II. Observations on the nature and value of timber; ... The whole illustrated with a great variety of figures and draughts, engraven on copper plates
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The ship-builders assistant: or, Some essays towards compleating the art of marine architecture: : viz. I. A general introduction, wherein is consider'd the solid of least resistance, so far as relates to the formation of a ship's body, &c. II. Observations for regulating the price of timber, taken from the proportion of its different dimensions; with estimates of the value of oak timber, and several other materials relating to naval stores. III. Rules for building the hull of any sort of ships. To which is added the scantling or measuring of ship-timbers, and some directions about moulding them. IV. A new method for finding the tunnage of any ship. V. Rules for proportioning the rigging. To which is annexed, an explication of the principal terms used in this art. The whole illustrated with many schemes proper to each part, most of them from copper plates
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The seaman's vade-mecum, : and defensive war by sea: containing, the proportions of rigging, masts and yards, ... Also, shewing how to prepare a merchant-ship for a close fight, ... By William Mountaine
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The practical builder,, or workman's general assistant: shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, ... With plans and elevations of gentlemans and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c
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The modern builder's assistant;, or, a concise epitome of the whole system of architecture; ... Divided into three parts. ... The whole beautifully engraved on eighty five folio copper plates, from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, ... Robert Morris, ... and T. Lightoler
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The seaman's vade-mecum, : and defensive war by sea: containing, the proportions of rigging, masts and yards, ... Also, shewing how to prepare a merchant-ship for a close fight, ... By William Mountaine

The practical builder,, or workman's general assistant: shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, ... With plans and elevations of gentlemans and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c

The modern builder's assistant;, or, a concise epitome of the whole system of architecture; ... Divided into three parts. ... The whole beautifully engraved on eighty five folio copper plates, from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, ... Robert Morris, ... and T. Lightoler