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Tectonicon: or The art of measuring of land, : squares, timber, stones, pillers, globes, boards and glass: with the carpenters rule, geometrical quadrant, and two useful tables. Also a scale for bringing waters from a spring-head or fountain to a distant place; and rules to know the goodness of waters. Likewise the use of the instrument called the profitable staff, fit for surveyors, joyners, carpenters and masons, &c

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1692.
Call number: 426622
Creator: Digges, Leonard (-approximately 1559)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 4to
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A booke named Tectonicon, : briefly shewing the exact measuring, and speedie reckoning all manner of land, squares, timber, stone, steeples, pillers, globes, &c. Further, declaring the perfect making and large vse of the carpenters ruler, containing a quadrant geometricall: comprehending also the rare vse of the squire. And in the end a little treatise adioyning, opening the composition and appliancy of an instrument called the profitable staffe. With other things pleasant and necessary, most conducible for surueyers, land-meaters, ioyners, carpenters and masons. Published by Leonard Digges Gentleman, in the yeere of our Lord, 1556
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