Cours De Stereometrie Applique Au Jaugeage Assujeti Au Systeme Metrique Contenant Les Principes

by Pierre Dominique Bazaine

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Paris: Firmin Didot, 1806. First edition. 8vo. xxviii, 190 pp. This work is an instructional manual and reference guide for the practice of jaugeage, or guaging, in France during the First Empire. Gauging was primarily the estimation or indirect measurement of fluids packed in barrels, particularly wines and spirits. It also included the calculation of quantities of other bulk commodities such as grains, lumber, or oils commonly held in forms or under

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