Rare Books

The complete ship-wright. : Plainly and demonstratively teaching the proportion used by experienced ship-wrights, according to their custom of building; both geometrically and arithmetically performed. To which are 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, useful in any ship becalmed; with other things useful in that art. The fourth edition