Complete Treatise on the Mensuration of Timber: Containing, Besides All the Rules Usually Given on the Subject, Some New & Interesting Improvements; Particularly the New, Expeditious and Very Accurate Method of Calculating the Contents of Square & Round Timber: with the Description of the Sliding Rule and Gunther's Scale, So Far as They Relate to this Art |
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| Title | Complete Treatise on the Mensuration of Timber: Containing, Besides All the Rules Usually Given on the Subject, Some New & Interesting Improvements; Particularly the New, Expeditious and Very Accurate Method of Calculating the Contents of Square & Round Timber: with the Description of the ... |
| Author | James Thompson |
| Publisher | Wright, Wilbur & Stockwell, 1805 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | Apr 30, 2010 |
| Length | 87 pages |
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