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The compleat ship-wright. : plainly and demonstratively teaching the proportions used by experienced ship-wrights, according to their custome of building, both geometrically and arithmetically performed. To which is added, certain propositions in geometry, the use of a diagonall scale, to draw a draught, with the making, graduating, or marking of a bend of moulds, and ordering of the same. The extraction of the square root, with a table of squares. Also, a way of rowing of ships, by heaving at the capstane, usefull in any ship becalm'd; with other things usefull in that art