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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06780	A treatise of artificial fire-vvorks both for vvarres and recreation with divers pleasant geometricall obseruations, fortifications, and arithmeticall examples. In fauour of mathematicall students. Newly written in French, and Englished by the authour Tho: [sic] Malthus.; Traité des feux artificiels pour la guerre, et pour la recreation. English	Malthus, Francis.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1629 (1629)	STC 17217; ESTC S109781	49,979	283

A TREATISE OF ARTIFICIAL FIRE-VVORKS Both for VVarres and Recreation with divers pleasant Geometricall obseruations Fortifications and Arithmeticall Examples In fauour of Mathematicall Students Newly written in FRENCH and Englished by the Authour THO MALTHVS Printed for RICHARD HAVVKINS and are to be sold at his Shop in Chancerie lane neere to Serieants Inne 1629. A TREATISE OF ARTIFICIALL FIREWORKES by F Malthus LONDON for Richard Hawkins in Chancery Lane 1629 THE PREFACE Apologetique to the Reader ALthough that Warres haue beene authorized by the diuine powers as witnesseth the new and old Testament yet me thinkes I heare many nice peeuish and ignorant braines blaming me for setting downe to the view of the world at a few leisurely houres so many wayes and inuentions how to corrupt and destroy what nature and art striue to make edifie and conserue to whom I answer they haue the same reason to exclaim against iustice which hath found and ordained many meanes to abolish and exterminate wicked offenders for my intention is here but onely to finde inventions to confound and ruinate Rebells and their habitations that afterward Empires Kingdomes and Common-wealths may the better liue in peace and tranquilitie and what more is I haue set downe perspicuously this Treatise of Fire-workes which many heretofore haue written with confusion and great danger having pend large Volumes with most ample and idle discourses touching this subiect whose names for modesties sake I will not here set downe with an infamous character to posteritie as Master Robert Norton hath done some few slight offenders names in the Preface to his translation of Vianos works which he calleth his owne hauing onely added seuen figures taken out of Thybourels booke and transposing the Authours workes to disguise it that I bee not accounted amongst the calumniators of this age who write with serpents tongues spitting their venome vpon the silent and sleepi●g innocents gone before vs. But I will onely shew their errors in generall that the learners may the better auoyde them For in some you shall see prescribed all sorts of Apothecaries drugges for the compounding of Fire-workes which are no more capable of fire then stones earth or mettle as Adamant-stone Verdigrease Cristall Vitrioll Salarmoniacke Sublime Mercurie with a number of the like which in the iudgement of ignorants may produce in Fire-workes wonderfull effects In others you shall finde the coniunctions of combustible materials in such a sort or manner disposed and ordered to such strange ends that you would say they were set downe to make the Reader laugh rather then for seruice of Fire-workes eyther for Warres or Recreation as the meanes how to poyson an Armie in the wide Field by the smoake of an artificiall Ball is it not to be thought a very prettie imagination or else that the Ball ought to bee somewhat bigge and afterward which is more ridiculous you shall finde in the same Authours the same ingredients and mixtures prescribed for Fireworks for Pleasure and Recreation which to mee seemes strange that the Fire-workes whose smoakes are so venemous even as to poyson Armies in the open Fields shall bee also fit to burne in the middle of a Cittie or Towne amongst thousands of people for Recreations now all these idle conceites with a number of the like are printed in many new and recent bookes the Authours whereof doubtlesse haue set downe all these ridiculous inventions by ignorance thinking them good and not of purpose for spight and therefore they doe deserue pittie rather then blame as well as Master ROBERT NORTON who hath erred onely in attributing another mans workes and faults to bee his owne and what is it that giues mee cause to thinke that all these haue erred by ignorance is because that all their workes are alike where that they doe speake of Fire-workes But reading these absurdities with a great quantitie of others which made mee take resolution to set my penne to paper and shew to posteritie how and what way to auoyde their errours having heere set downe the true rules and mixtures required for Fire-workes both for VVarres and Recreation with some few Geometricall obseruations necessarie for the practise of Fireworkes in warres and also I haue added vnto it certaine rules and maximes of Fortifications very requisite for Enginiers to haue in their memorie with a compendious Arithmetike hauing written the whole first in French at some broken houres whilest I followed the warres and bringing certaine coppies from the Presse to my speciall and very good friends at whose requests I haue translated the same into English that others might not translating it mistake my meaning and the worke being already but of small commendations they to make it of lesser Adiew London the 22. of May. 1629. To the Authour THy Archimedean hand hath learnt to frame Celestiall Meteors out of Nitrous flame And represents strange fires of differēt sorts Suted to Martiall vse Courtly sports So pleasing that great Kings haue spar'd some houres To be spectators of thy golden showres The Thames and Seyne haue seen thy Balons fly From their affrighted bosomes to the skye Swift beyond all beliefe as if thy ayme Were to restore Prometheus theft againe Were when their force seems spent breaking asunder They rain down stars or els outroar the thunder The Roman Apotheosis I deeme Would still haue had a reuerent esteeme If they had vs'd these miracles of fire To mount their Caesars soules beare thē higher Then Eagles flight but now they serue to raise The Pyramis and Trophe of thy praise And sure thou hast attain'd sufficient glory In perfecting the Pyrotecnique story Which some tooke vpon trust by concealing Their creditors made borowing to seem stealing But their fire 's out now thine hath pass'd the Presse For greater fires do extinguish lesse WILLIAM BASTIAN studious in Mathematicks A TREATISE OF FIRE-WORKES for Warre CHAP. I. TO imitate nature our first and chiefest teacher who far from error seemes to haue produced and brought forth all things ●y a curious and speciall order without whose beautifull disposi●●on on the whole world had still con●●nued in the most prodigious con●●sion of Caos which displeased the ●●●ure aspect of the highest eternall and divine powers being but a cloud or mixture of darknesse My intention is here to institute and obserue an order treating of euery thing one after another in his proper and conuenient place beginning with artificiall Fire-workes as the chiefest and principall cause which hath vrged me to take my penne in hand the description of those which belong to warres shall obtaine the first place and next the Fire-workes for recreation or pleasure passing from these to many pleasing Geometricall obseruations aswell of Mecanical obseruation as by the sines tangents succents ioyning to them a most easie succent method to fortifie all places regularly and irregularly And to conclude I will adde many briefe and instructiue Arithmeticall examples Now to begin with the Fire-workes for warres I will