A booke named Tectonicon briefly shewing the exact measuring, and spedie reckoning all maner of land, squares, timber, stone, steeples, pillers, globes, &c. Further, declaring the perfect making and large vse of the carpenters ruler, conteining a quadrant geometricall: comprehending also the rare vse of the squire. And in the end a little treatise adioyning, opening the composition and appliancie of an instrument, called the profitable staffe. With other things pleasant and necessarie, most conducible for surueyers, landmeaters, ioyners, carpenters, and masons. Published by Leonard Digges Gentleman, in the yeare of our Lord, 1556.

Main entry:

Digges, Leonard, -1571?

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Publication:

Imprinted at London : By Thomas Orwin, dwelling in Pater noster Rowe, ouer agaynst the Checker, 1592.

Description:

[2], 26 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19 cm

Notes:
STC (2nd ed.) 6851
Digital facsimile available via Early English Books Online; Subscription required.

Resources:
Online version (Accès pour le personnel et les chercheurs du CCA / Access for CCA staff and researchers).

Subject:

Measurement Early works to 1800.
Mesure Ouvrages avant 1800.
Measurement.

Form/genre:

Early works.

Added entries:

Tectonicon.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage 18029
Call No.: ID:93-B1247
Status: Available

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