Mensuration

Workmanship like Artists and come as near Perfection as the human Eye and finger will allow, i.e. as near an exact Mensuration of Time.

John Adams diary 12, 30 December 1765 - 20 January 1766 1961

A Clock also has a Constitution, i.e. a certain Combination ofWeights, Springs, Wheels and Levers, calculated for certain Uses and Ends. This Use and End is the Mensuration of Time.

John Adams diary 12, 30 December 1765 - 20 January 1766 1961

Mensuration of Surfaces and Solids, Tables of the Weights of

Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose

[221] R.W. Eyton, "A key to Domesday, showing the Method and Exactitude of its Mensuration ... exemplified by ... the Dorset Survey," London,

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

"On Mensuration," and also in various children's and juvenile works, such as Æsop's and Gay's Fables.

Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature Edwin Pearson

At this time he was employed by Bielby to cut on wood the blocks for Dr. Hutton's great work on _Mensuration_.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829 Various

To which is added an Appendix, containing Instructions for Boiler-Making, Mensuration of Surfaces and Solids, Rules for Calculating the Weights of different Figures of Iron and Steel, Tables of the Weights of Iron, Steel, etc.

Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose

Anecdotes_, mentions that Dr. Taylor, who was librarian at Cambridge, about the year 1732, used to relate of himself that one day throwing books in heaps for the purpose of classing and arranging them, he put one among works on _Mensuration_, because his eye caught the word _height_ in the title-page; and another which had the word _salt_ conspicuous, he threw among books on Chemistry or Cookery.

The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection Various

"Mensuration of Running Water", in which he developed the important relations, that the speed of a current varies inversely as the area of its cross section, and that the discharge from a vessel depends on the depth of the tap below the free surface of the water.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Mathematics up to Fluxions; Mensuration up to Astronomy; Geography.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907