Measurements.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Dimensions or size ascertained by measuring; a magnitude, quantity, or extent calculated by the application of an instrument or device marked in standard units.
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Manual of mathematics, evidently for the use of a military officer, compiled by James Douglas.
Item
Identifier: MS.3939
Scope and Contents
The manual, compiled in 1698 (dates on pages 334a, 401), contains arithmetic, based on E Cocker's ‘Arithmetick’, with some rules for extracting roots by algebra and logarithms; "the doctrine of decimall fractions takne out of Mr. Coker's Decimall Arithmetick", (page 156); and 'the doctrine of plain triangles, or ... plain trigonometry' (page 334a), with rules for ascertaining heights, etc., with instruments.The words 'Heir endeth so much of the arithmetick as a souldier ought...
Dates:
1698.