De numeris geometricis. = Of the nature and proprieties of geometricall numbers. First written by Lazarus Schonerus, and now Englished, enlarged and illustrated with diuers and sundry tables and obseruations concerning the measuring of plaines and solids: all teaching the fabricke, demonstration and vse of a singular instrument, or rular, long since inuented and perfitted by Thomas Bedwell Esquire

Title

De numeris geometricis. = Of the nature and proprieties of geometricall numbers. First written by Lazarus Schonerus, and now Englished, enlarged and illustrated with diuers and sundry tables and obseruations concerning the measuring of plaines and solids: all teaching the fabricke, demonstration and vse of a singular instrument, or rular, long since inuented and perfitted by Thomas Bedwell Esquire

Author

Bedwell, William, ca. 1561-1632.

Publication

London :: Printed by Richard Field,

1614.

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Subject terms

Bedwell, Thomas, d. 1595.

Geometry -- Early works to 1800.

Mensuration -- Early works to 1800.

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"De numeris geometricis. = Of the nature and proprieties of geometricall numbers. First written by Lazarus Schonerus, and now Englished, enlarged and illustrated with diuers and sundry tables and obseruations concerning the measuring of plaines and solids: all teaching the fabricke, demonstration and vse of a singular instrument, or rular, long since inuented and perfitted by Thomas Bedwell Esquire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A11580.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE HONO∣RABLE KNIGHT, Sir Robert Coke.
• TO THE COVRTEOVS READER.
• OF A RATIONALL FIGVRATE NVMBER.
  • CHAP. I. Of the Extraction of a Quadrate roote, or side.
  • CHAP. II. Of the Quadrate.
  • CHAP. III. Of the making and use of certaine Tables and Instruments, deuised for the more exact and speedie measuring of all sorts of Plaines.
    • Of the measuring of Cloth, Wainscot, Painting, Pauing &c. by the yard.
    • Of measuring of Land by the Aker.
    • A very speedie and readie way or maner of Diuision in this case of surueying.
  • CHAP. IIII. Of the Extraction of a Cubicke roote.
  • CHAP. V. Of the measuring of Timber by the Foote.
    • The vse of the Table in Timber-measure.
    • In Boord-measure.
• TRIGONVM ARCHITECTONICVM: OR, THE CARPENTERS SQVIRE: