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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16508	The arte of shooting in great ordnaunce Contayning very necessary matters for all sortes of seruitoures eyther by sea or by lande. Written by William Bourne.	Bourne, William, d. 1583.	1587 (1587)	STC 3420; ESTC S109410	64,220	106

whereby they should atteine it for all the proofes that haue beene made as yet by Englishmen are no proofe but altogether to cause them that did see the proofe to committe further errour as touching the distance vnto the marke or hitting the length of the marke CHAPTER 6. What a degree is c. FUrthermore wheras this book is nam● The Arte of shooting in great Ordnaunce so in like manner I thinke it conuenient to shew you what the word Arte meaneth or signifieth which is the describing of a way or methode how to atteyne to the certayntie of any matter Which as hitherunto I haue not seen any such book althogh it hath been very neer two hundred yeeres since the first inuentiō of Ordnaunce and excepte there bee any better booke in some mens hands such as I haue not seene as it is like ynough that there may be there is no Arte in any of them yet I haue seene a number of bookes that haue beene written concerning Ordnance but surely they that wrote thē were not seene in any part of y e Mathematical science neither good Machanisians but in respect vtterly voyd of any science in comparison no good order described in the shooting of Ordnaunce to knowe what distance the shotte is deliuered from the peece neyther haue they knowen what instruments haue meaned And although they haue named degrees in their bookes yet it appeareth vnto me that they haue not knowledge what a degree signifieth for that they haue named a Quadrant a Triangle and other food and foolish by names Wherefore they that haue written those bookes that the Gūners haue amongst them were vtterly vnlearned in any manner of science which were in the beginning in the time of King Henry y e eight made by Flemmings for in the wars in those daies the King sent ouer into Flaunders and those parts thereabout to haue Gunners to serue him in the warres the Gunners haue no other bookes but such as were written by them wherefore I do thinke it good to shew vnto you what a degree is A degree is a parte or deuision of a whole circle into 360. equall parts as the the auncient fathers aforetime haue taught and especially in Astronomy And it is very profitable for Gunners to knowe the vse of them The Quadrant that they doe occupie is the fourth part of a circle deuided into 90. equall parts according vnto y e fourth part of the Heauens for the zeneth or pricke in the Heauens ouer the Crowne of your head downe to the Horizon is deuided into 90. equall partes according vnto the Quadrant As for example If there were a perpendicular line let downe out of the Heauens vnto the earth then should the earth be a right line and make a square angle vnto the furthest parte of the Horizon that you can see and so passe vnto the Heauens as doth the Quadrant and then the best of the Rander is 45. of these deuisions called degrees as some mens opinion hath been and that is half 90. and the said 45. degrees be the best of the Rander in some cases and that is with the winde but otherwise it is not as it is further declared in the 5. Chapter And for better example I haue placed this figure CHAPTER 7. Howe to make a shotte vpon the right line and also to know how much ground any peece of Ordnaunce doth driue or conuey the shot at the mount of euery degree of the Rander FUrthermore any peece of Ordnaunce being truly disparted as is declared in the fourth Chapter they may know at al times how for to shoote iust vnto the mark especially within point blank point blanke is the direct fleeing of the shot without any descending from the mouth of the peece vnto the mark y e mouth of the peece to stand directly with the Horizon so that it be vpon a plaine and leuell ground as far as y e peece may cast hytting any thing that standeth directly as hygh as the mouth of the peece laying the hollowe or concauitie of the peece against the thing that you doe shoote at c. And to shoote at anye marke vppon the right line you shall doe it by this meanes your peece being truely disparted and the dispart sette vppon the mouth of the peece bringe the middle of the tayle of the peece to the toppe of your disparte vppon the mouth of the peece and the marke that you doe shoote at all three vppon one right line by the sight of one of your eyes and then foreseeing that the peece standeth vppon a leuell grounde and the one wheele to bee as nimble as the other this doone there is no doubte but you may shoote as neere the marke with a Cannon as with a Hargabus or Caliuer This is most certaine Therefore it is very necessary to know how far any peece wil conuey the shot vpon the right line that is somewhat hard to do for there is seldome any grounde but is higher in one place than in another and then if the peece should bee layd close vnto the ground it woulde graze before that it were at the end of the right line and then if the peece be in her carriage the shotte will not graze before that it were descended as much as the height of the carriage And for to set vp any thing certaine at the end of the right line it were too tedious therefore in my opinion this is one of the best wayes in the finding what distance any peece conuayeth or driueth the shotte vppon the right line or any degree of the Rander as thus Repaire vnto a very leuell ground as a plaine marrish that is iust water leuell and then to finde the right line or point blanke rayse a butte or banke in that plaine grounde and then sette vppe a marke the iust height of the peece that lyeth in the carriage and take a quadrant with a rule fast thereunto and put the rule into the mouth of the peece and coyne the breech of the peece vp and downe vntill the plummet hang at the corner of the Quadrant and then shall the Concauitie of the peece lye right with the Horyzon neyther higher nor lower then shoote off the peece against the butte if the shotte bee vnder the marke it is more then the right line then you must bringe the peece neerer vnto the butte banke or marke but if it be the iust height of the marke then remooue the peece farther off from the marke and so remoouing the peece for wardes and backwardes you shal finde the true right line of the peece By this order you may trye the true right line of all manner of peeces of Ordnaunce And whereas the opinion of diuers Gunners is the one contrarie vnto the other some holding an opinion that the longer peece doth ouershoote the shorter and some that the shorte doth ouershoote the longer the troth is that the longer peece doth shoote further than the