Mellificium mensionis
Subtitle: or, The marrow of measuring.  Wherein a new and ready way is shewn how to measure glazing, painting, plastering, masonry, joyners, carpenters, and bricklayers works.  As also the measuring of land, and all other superficies and solids, by vulgar arithmetick, without reducing the integers into the least denomination; giving the content of any superficies or solids, consisting of feet, inches, and parts of inches, in a fourth part of the time and labour required by the usual way in vulgar arithmetic.  Together with some choice principles and problems of geometry conducing thereto.  The whole treatise being comprized in six books, and illustrated with copper cuts.  An account whereof is given in the epistle to the reader; the like not heretofore published.
Contributors: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.; Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.; Marsh, William (autograph)
Publisher: The Author, and sold by R. Chiswel [etc]
Published: 1682
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Measurement -- Early works to 1800; Geometry -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: The marrow of measuring
Notes: Books 2-6 have each a special t. p. dated 1681.

Books 2, "A garden of geometrical roses" and 3, "Some principles and problems in geometry ..." originally written in Latin by T. Hobbes and translated by V. Mandey.

Macdonald and Hargreaves 73.

Wing M420A.

RBSC copy: With the autograph of William Marsh 1696 (front flyleaf).