The art of gunnery : Wherein is described the true way to make all sorts of gunpowder, guu-match [sic], the art of shooting in great and small ordnance: excellent ways to take heights, depths, distances, accessible, or inaccessible, either single or divers distances at one operation: to draw the map or plot of any city, town, castle, or other fortified place. To make divers sorts of artificiall fire-works, both for war and recreation, also to cure all such wounds that are curable, which may chance to happen by gunpowder or fire-works. This treatise is composed for the help of all such gunners and others, that have charge of artillery, and are not well versed in arithmetick and geometry : all the rules and directions in this book, being framed both with and without the help of arithmetick. By Nathanael Nye mathematician, master gunner of the city of Worcester.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
printed for William Leak, at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates,
1647.
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | "The art of gunnery. Chap. 38." begins 2nd pagination and register; text is continuous. "A treatise of artificiall fire-works for warre and recreation." has separate dated title page on pages [57] second sequence. Reproduction of the original in the Cambridge University Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([20], 88, 102 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations, tables, diagrams |