Mellificium mensionis: or, The marrow of measuring.
Subtitle: 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 superfices and solids, by vulgar arithmetick, without reducing the integers into the least denomination; giving the content of any superfices 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 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. By Venterus Mandey
Contributors: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679; White, Robert, 1645-1703, engraver
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1762:17
Publisher: printed for the author, and sold by Richard Chiswel, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard; and Benjamin Clark, in George-yard in Lumbard-Street; and by the author, at the Red-Heart in Heart-Street in Bloomsbury Market
Published: 1682
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Measurement -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Mellificium mensionis; Garden of geometrical roses; Some principles and problems in geometry; Measuring of glazing, painting, plaistering, masonsy, joynery, carpenters, and bricklayers, works; Measuring of glazing, painting, plaistering, masonry, joynery, carpenters, and bricklayers, works; Measuring of superficial plains; Measuring of solids; Marrow of measuring; Rosetum geometricum; Principia et problemata aliquot geometrica
Notes: The portrait of the author is signed: R. White sculp

"A garden of geometrical roses" (a translation by Mandey of "Rosetum geometricum" by Thomas Hobbes), "Some principles and problems in geometry" (a translation by Mandey of "Principia et problemata aliquot geometrica" by Thomas Hobbes), "Measuring of glazing, painting, plaistering, masonsy [sic], joynery, carpenters, and bricklayers, works", "Measuring of superficial plains", and "Measuring of solids" each have separate title page dated 1681

With a final errata leaf

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

Wing (2nd ed.) M420A

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1987. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1762:17).