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***Includes: "Questions of Measuring"; "Glaziers and Smith Worke done at ye House of Thomas Turner By Will: Nelson and Ralph Law at 4½d p foot New Work and 2½ d. p. foot ould Glass New Leaded, in July 1709"; "Questions of the extraction of the Square Root"; "The Preceding Figure is a Scale for a Weather Roape of 4.55 Foot in Length betwixt ye Nails or Hookes unto which it is to be fastned; ye Length of this Scale being 2.2 Inches betwixt Wett and very Fair. ye Dimensions of ye preceding Scale and its correspondent Weather Roape was taken from one of Ralph Boltons of Croston [Lancashire] by his consent, which was erected by Mr Watterson Arithmetician.".