Hawney's Complete Measurer, Or the Whole Art of Measuring: Being a Plain and Comprehensive Treatise on Practical Geometry and Mensuration (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Hawney's Complete Measurer, or the Whole Art of Measuring: Being a Plain and Comprehensive Treatise on Practical Geometry and Mensuration

In the former editions, timber measuring was divided into several sections; as, squar ed timber, or pieces of timber in the form of a parallelopipedon; unequal Squared timber, or pieces of timber in the form of the frustum of a pyramld; round timber with equal bdses, 01 pieces of timber in the fo1m of a cylinder round timber with unequal bases, or pieces of timber in the form of the frustum of a cone: and the contents were found, both by the customary method of m'easuring timber, and likewise by the 1ule for each 1espective solid. In this edition these examples are placed undei the several rules to which they belong, and are distinguished by asterisks*, and in timber measuring they are brought forward, and solved by the customary method, with reference to the pages where they are truly solved. By this means several pages have been'saved for the introduction of more useful matter.

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