Mellificium mensionis
Subtitle: or, The marrow of measuring.  Wherein a new and ready way is shewn how to measure glazing, painting, plaistering, 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 solid, consisting of feet, inches and parts of inches, in a fourth part of the time and labour required by the usual way in vulgar arithmetick.  Together with some choice principles and problems of geometry conducing thereto.  To which is added an appendix, left under the author's own hand ...  Illustrated with copper cuts.  The like not heretofore published.
Contributors: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.; Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
Edition: The 3d ed., with additions.
Publisher: T. Tebb [etc.]
Published: 1717
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
Subjects: Measurement -- Early works to 1800; Geometry -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: The marrow of measuring
Notes: Books 2-6 and the appendix have each a special t.p.

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.