The general gauger or, the principles and practice of gauging beer, wine, and malt. Containing, I. Decimal Arithmetick, the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots, and the Use of them in the Way of Gauging. II. The Necessary Problems in Geometry relating to Gauging and Measuring. III. The Use of the Sliding-Rule in Measuring Timber, and other Surfaces and Solids. IV. The Theory and Practice of Gauging in all the Varieties, perform'd by Pen, and Sliding-Rule. Each Proposition being Wrought in Beer, Wine, and Malt. V. The Construction of the Table of Segments, and all the Varieties of Ullaging of Casks. VI. A Table of Areas in Malt Bushels, &c. Vii. An Appendix for mensuring Boards, Timber, Stone, &c. With Rules and Examples for measuring most Sorts of superficial and solid Figures: Also Surveying of Land. The Whole laid down more methodically than any Performance of this Nature yet extant. By John Dougharty, Teacher of the Mathematicks at Worcester

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Dougharty, John
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for John and Paul Knapton, in Ludgate-Street 1750, MDCCL. [1750]
Edition:	The sixth edition, corrected by the author. To which is added, a table
Subjects:	Wine And Wine Making / Gaging And Testing / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0062700600?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa