Marine architecture [electronic resource] : or, the ship-builder's assistant: containing directions for carrying on a ship, from the first laying of the keel, to her actual going to sea. Shewing, I. The Proportions used by Experienced Ship-Wrights in Building, both Geometrically and Arithmetically performed. Also the Making, Marking, and Ordering a Bend of Moulds: With a large Table of the Square Root, and Directions concerning the Measuring of Ships. II. Directions for Masting and Yarding of any Ship, or making both in a just Proportion to the Ship, and to one another; both as to Length and Thickness. With Tables of the Weights and Sizes of Anchors and Cables, according to a new Establishment. III. The Boatswain's Art; or an Essay upon Rigging: Shewing how to Rigg a Ship, or to know the Length and Thickness of every Rope exactly; with Cable and Cordage Tables, to know, by Inspection, the Weight of any Rope, whose Length and Thickness is given, and the Construction or Making of the said Tables; with some Directions for cutting out Sails. The whole illustrated with schemes and draughts, to render it intelligible to all capacities.
1748
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Marine architecture [electronic resource] : or, the ship-builder's assistant: containing directions for carrying on a ship, from the first laying of the keel, to her actual going to sea. Shewing, I. The Proportions used by Experienced Ship-Wrights in Building, both Geometrically and Arithmetically performed. Also the Making, Marking, and Ordering a Bend of Moulds: With a large Table of the Square Root, and Directions concerning the Measuring of Ships. II. Directions for Masting and Yarding of any Ship, or making both in a just Proportion to the Ship, and to one another; both as to Length and Thickness. With Tables of the Weights and Sizes of Anchors and Cables, according to a new Establishment. III. The Boatswain's Art; or an Essay upon Rigging: Shewing how to Rigg a Ship, or to know the Length and Thickness of every Rope exactly; with Cable and Cordage Tables, to know, by Inspection, the Weight of any Rope, whose Length and Thickness is given, and the Construction or Making of the said Tables; with some Directions for cutting out Sails. The whole illustrated with schemes and draughts, to render it intelligible to all capacities.
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London : printed for William and John Mount, and Thomas Page, on Tower-Hill, M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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[4],88p.,plate : ill. ; 4⁰.
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Reproduction of original from British Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T84955.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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