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Subject Terms Geometry, Solid -- Early works to 1800.

1. The royal gauger, or, Gauging made perfectly easy : as it is actually practised by the officers of His Majesty's revenue of excise : in two parts : Part I. Containing the practical methods of finding the areas and contents of such superficies and solids, as are the foundation of gauging ... Part II. Shewing all the necessary steps to be taken for obtaining employment in the excise ... to which is added, cask-gauging, &c. as practised in the port of London : the whole illustrated with many new copper-plates adapted to the subject ... / by Charles Leadbetter.

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Creator:: Leadbetter, Charles, fl. 1728
Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: xvii, [1], 474 [i.e. 484] p., 10 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. An illustration and mensuration of solid geometry in seven books: : containing forty-two moveable copper-plate schemes for forming the various kinds of solids and their sections; by which the doctrine of solids in general, and those in the eleventh, twelfth, and fifteenth books of Euclid are elucidated, and rendered more easy to learners than by any work hitherto published.... / By the late John Lodge Cowley, F.R.S. professor of the mathematics in the Royal Academy at Woolwich.

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Creator:: Cowley, John Lodge, 1719–1797
Date:: MDCCLXXXVII [i.e. 1787]
Physical Description:: 32 XLVII leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts