Mellificium mensionis: or, The marrow of measuring. Wherein a new and ready way is shewn how to measure glazing, painting, plastering, masonry, joyners, carpenters, and bricklayers works. As also the measuring of land, and all other superfices and solids, by vulgar arithmetick, without reducing the integers into the least denomination; giving the content of any superfices or solid, consisting of feet, inches, and parts of inches, in a fourth part of the time and labour required by the usual way in vulgar arithmetic. Together with some choice principles and problems of geometry conducing thereto. The whole treatise being comprized in six books, and illustrated with copper cuts. An account whereof is given in the epistle to the reader; the like not heretofore published. By Venterus Mandey.

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Author / Creator:Mandey, Venterus.
Imprint:London : printed for the author, and sold by Richard Chiswel, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard; and Benjamin Clark, in George-yard in Lumbard-Street; and by the author, at the Red-Heart in Heart-Street in Bloomsbury Market, 1682.
Description:1 online resource ([26], 376, [2] p., [12] plates) port., ill. (metal cuts)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11531911
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Varying Form of Title:Mellificium mensionis
Measuring of glazing, painting, plaistering, masonsy, joynery, carpenters, and bricklayers, works
Some principles and problems in geometry
Garden of geometrical roses
Measuring of glazing, painting, plaistering, masonry, joynery, carpenters, and bricklayers, works
Measuring of solids
Marrow of measuring
Measuring of superficial plains
Other uniform titles:Rosetum geometricum.
Principia et problemata aliquot geometrica.
Other authors / contributors:Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
White, Robert, 1645-1703, engraver.
Notes:The portrait of the author is signed: R. White sculp.
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
"A garden of geometrical roses" (a translation by Mandey of "Rosetum geometricum" by Thomas Hobbes), "Some principles and problems in geometry" (a translation by Mandey of "Principia et problemata aliquot geometrica" by Thomas Hobbes), "Measuring of glazing, painting, plaistering, masonsy [sic], joynery, carpenters, and bricklayers, works", "Measuring of superficial plains", and "Measuring of solids" each have separate title page dated 1681.
With a final errata leaf.
Wing (2nd ed.) M420A.