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A general treatise of mensuration: containing many useful and necessary improvements . Composed for the benefit of artificers, builders, measurers, surveyors, gaugers, farmers, gentlemen, young students, &c. The whole being intended as an easy introduction to several parts of the mathematicks. By J. Robertson, F.R.S.
Robertson, J. (John), 1712-1776.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Pictures
Chemistry: equipment for measuring the volume of gases. Engraving by A. Bell.
Reference: 47807i
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Measurement: a pedometer. Engraving, [1661?].
Date: 1661Reference: 46693i
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Chemistry: chemical apparatus made of glass, metal etc. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.
Lascelles, Henry, active 1800.Date: 10 February 1801Reference: 47598i- Pictures
Chemistry: equipment for measuring the volume of gases. Engraving by A. Bell.
Reference: 47808i
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The principle of measurement, and examples of meters. Engraving.
Reference: 47020i- Pictures
Chemistry: equipment for measuring the volume of gases. Engraving by A. Bell.
Reference: 47805i
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A clock and a further instrument of measurement. Line block process print.
Reference: 36610i- E-books
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A complete view of the British Customs . Containing, I. A perfect and distinct account of the several particular branches whereof that revenue consists. II. The Former and Additional Books of the Rates of Merchandizes, from which most of those Branches are chargeable; with the Neat Total Amount of all the several Branches payable, as well from those Rates, as from the Values upon Oath, &c for all Foreign Goods and Merchandize Imported, not only by British Subjects, but by Strangers; and also The Neat Total Amount of such of the said Branches as are to be Repaid, or Drawn back, in case the said Goods are afterwards Exported to Foreign Parts within Time. With The Neat Duty to be paid upon Native Commodities, and several Foreign Dying Goods Exported: Also the Duties to be paid upon Coals, Culm, and Cinders brought Coastwise, and to be Repaid if they are afterwards Exported. All Calculated to the Utmost Exactness. Together with the several Rules, Orders, &c. Annexed to the said Books of Rates. III. Directions for, and Examples of, The Method of Computing the aforesaid Duties to be Paid and Repaid; with the Drawbacks and Bounties on the Exportation of several British Goods, &c. IV. The several Ports, Members, and Creeks of Great Britain; the Lawful Keys, Wharfs, &c. and the Fees payable to the Officers of the Customs in the Port of London; with the Duties of Scavage, Package, &c payable to the said City. V. An index, wherein is comprehended the substance of the several laws now in force, relating to the Customs, &c. The Whole being A Complete System of His Majesty's Revenue of Customs. B Henry Crouch, Of the Custom-House, London.
Crouch, Henry, d. 1732.Date: MDCC.XXXVIII. [1738]- Books
Albertus Durerus Nurembergensis pictor huius ætatis celeberrimus, versus è germanica lingua in latinum ... adeo exacte quatuor his suarum Institutionum geometricarum libris, lineas, superficies et solida corpora tractavit ... Denuo ad scripti exemplaris fidem omnia diligenter recognita. Emendatius iam in lucem exeunt / [Albrecht Dürer].
Albrecht DürerDate: 1534- Books
Smoot's ear : the measure of humanity / Robert Tavernor.
Robert TavernorDate: [2007]- Books
The Śulbasūtras of Baudhāyana, Āpastamba, Kātyāyana and Mānava : with text, English translation and commentary / by S.N. Sen and A.K. Bag.
Samarendranath SenDate: [1983]
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Body measurements, front view, Chinese woodcut, 1443
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Mensuration: a man using an inclinometer (?) and trigonometry to measure a water-tank (?) in a field. Engraving, ca.1760.
Reference: 46695i- Books
Measuring the user experience : collecting, analyzing, and presenting usability metrics / Tom Tullis, Bill Albert.
Tullis, Tom (Thomas)Date: [2008]- Pictures
Mathematics: a circular slide-rule for conversion of weight. Lithograph after Veiga [?].
Reference: 47867i
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Engraving: sphygmomanometer devised by S.S. von Basch, circa 1881.
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A complete view of the British Customs . Part the second. Containing ample instructions for the entering, examining, and delivering of goods and merchandizes imported into Great Britain from Foreign Parts. Illustrated By Examples of the Present Practice of the Officers of the Customs, at the Water-Side in the Port of London; in the several Sorts of Goods that are now most usually imported into the said Port. To which is added, an appendix, containing the theory and practice of measuring, and cask-gauging. Designed, not only for the Use of the Officers of His Majesty's Customs in the Out-Ports; but for the Service of all concerned in the Importation of Foreign Goods. By Henry Crouch, Of the Custom-House, London.
Crouch, Henry, d. 1732.Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
Weighing imponderables and other quantitative science around 1800 / J.L. Heilbron.
John L. HeilbronDate: 1993- Books
Measurement in Australia 1938-1988 : a history of Australia's National Standards Laboratory / J.F.H. Wright.
Wright, J. F. H.Date: 1988- Pictures
Humidity measurement, and details of a hygrometer. Engraving by A. Bell.
Reference: 47022i
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A pyrometer: shown in and out of its box. Engraving, mid eighteenth century.
Reference: 47031i
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A doctor inserts a barometer, instead of a thermometer, in a patient's backside: his condition reads "Set fair". Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Abel FaivreDate: 22 March 1902Reference: 17083i
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Body measurements, back view, Chinese woodcut, 1443
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A sheet of standard weights and measures in use during the twelfth year of the reign of Henry VII. Engraving, 1746, probably by I. Basire, after a manuscript of c.1497.
Date: 1746Reference: 498501i