Excerpt from A Treatise on a Box of Instruments and the Slide-Rule: For the Use of Gaugers, Engineers, Seamen, and Students No attempts, however, are perfect in the beginning; and much was wanted in the first edition to render the work complete. This additional information has been supplied. Several problems have been prefixed, requiring only the compasses and ruler, which, together with those that follow, embrace all that are truly useful, and preclude the necessity of referring to other works on Practical Geometry. ...
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Excerpt from A Treatise on a Box of Instruments and the Slide-Rule: For the Use of Gaugers, Engineers, Seamen, and Students No attempts, however, are perfect in the beginning; and much was wanted in the first edition to render the work complete. This additional information has been supplied. Several problems have been prefixed, requiring only the compasses and ruler, which, together with those that follow, embrace all that are truly useful, and preclude the necessity of referring to other works on Practical Geometry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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