Excerpt from Measuring Made Easy, or the Description and Use of Coggeshall's Sliding Rule: Containing Instructions for Measuring All Manner of Timber, Both by the Common Way, and the True Way And as the Figures are altered, 'fo mull: the' Strokes or Divifions between them be altered in their Value, accordmg to the Num ber of the Parts they are divided into: As thus, the Dif'tance from 1 to 2 is divided mm 10 Parts, and each Tenth 13 divided into 5 Parts and that from 2 to 3 is divided into 10 Parts; and each Tenth into 2 Parts, itand fo on from 3 to 5; then the Dif'tance from 5'to 6, is divided into 10 Parts only and fo on to 1 in the Middle of the Rule, or the Firfl Part of the Douole Line of Numbers. The Se cond Part, or Radius, is divided like the Firfi Radius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.