A TREATISE ON GUNTER'S SCALE, AND THE SLIDING RULE: TOGETHER WITH A DESCRIPTION AND USE, OF THE SECTOR, PROTRACTOR, PLAIN SCALE, AND LINE OF CHORDS; OR AN EASY METHOD OF FINDING THE AREA OF SUPER TO THESE ARE ADDED SEVERAL USEFUL LOGARITHMICK TABLES, TABLES OF LATITUDE AND DEPARTURE, AND A TABLE OF NATURAL RADII, NOT KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN HERETOFORE PUBLISHED: ALSO A TABLE OF ROUND, AND SQUARE TIMBER. BY GEORGE CURTIS, MATH. WHITEHALL, N. Y. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY E. ADAMS.. 1824. District of Vermont,-To Wit. DE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-seventh day B of May in the forty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, GEORGE CURTIS of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "A treatise on Gunter's Scale, and the Sliding Rule, together, with a description and use of the Sector, the Protractor, Plain Scale, and Line of Chords; or an easy method of finding the area of superfices, and of measuring Boards and finding the solid contents of bodies, especially that of timber, by the Sliding Rule, and also of gauging Casks and Round Timber. To these are added several useful Logarithmick Tables, Tables of Latitude and Departure, and a table of Natural Radii, not known to be heretofore published. By GEORGE CURTIS, Math." In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragment of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." JESSE GOVE, Clerk of the District of Vermont. A true Copy of Record, examined and scaled by J. GOVE, Clerk. The primary design of this Treatise, is to introduce a more general attention to, and knowledge of the instruments herein described. Notwithstanding the many books that are daily issuing from the press, on other subjects, yet I have known of none that can preclude the benefits of a work of this kind. The author was led into these views by journeying through many parts of the United States, and finding a work on the subject here treated of, very much needed. It is designed as a pocket companion, for the Surveyor, Mechanick, and for those who deal in timber and boards, particularly by its tables of round and square timber, for the Wheelright, the Housecarpenter, Joiner, Cooper, and many other Dealers and Craftsmen, as well as the Grocer, for gauging expeditiously. How far the author has succeeded in his views, and endeavours to render it useful to mankind, must be decided by the test of experience. |