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 Area's in Malt-Bushels, &c. The Whole laid down more methodically than any Performance of this Nature yet extant. By Mr. John Dougharty, Teacher of the Mathematicks at Worcester

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Dougharty, John
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for James and John Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1727, MDCCXXVII. [1727]
Edition:	The fourth edition, corrected by the author
Subjects:	Gaging Mensuration / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1053000300?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa