Pepys' Diary.
JUNE 6th, 1663. Walked, drinking my morning draft of whay by the way. to York House, where the Russia Embassador do lie; and there I saw his people go up and down louseing themselves. JUNE Sth, 1663. Up and after ordering some things toward? my wife’s going to the country, to the office, where I spent the morning upon my measuring rules very pleasantly till noon, and then comes Creed and he and I talked about mathematiques, and he tells me of a way found out by Mr Jonas Moore which he calls duodecimal arithmetique, which is properly applied to measuring, where all is ordered by inches, which are 12 in a foot, which I have in mind to learn.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 190, 12 August 1931, Page 8
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122Pepys' Diary. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 190, 12 August 1931, Page 8
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