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england_n	lord_n	privy_a	treasurer_n	2,576	5	11.0263	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16196	Baculum familliare, catholicon siue generale A booke of the making and vse of a staffe, newly inuented by the author, called the familiar staffe. As well for that it may be made vsually and familiarlie to walke with, as for that it performeth the geometrical mensurations of all altituded, longitudes, latitudes, distances and profundities: as many myles of, as the eye may well see and discerne: most speedily, exactly and familiarly without any maner of arithmeticall calculation, easily to be learned and practised, euen by the vnlettered. Newlie compiled, and at this time published for the speciall helpe of shooting in great ordinance, and other millitarie seruices, and may as well be imployed by the ingenious, for measuring of land, and to a number of other good purposes, both geometricall and astronomicall: by Iohn Blagraue ...	Blagrave, John, d. 1611.	1590 (1590)	STC 3118; ESTC S102659	45,938	75

Baculum Familliare Catholicon siue Generale A BOOKE OF THE making and vse of a Staffe newly inuented by the Author called the Familiar Staffe As well for that it may be made vsually and familiarlie to walke with as for that it performeth the Geometrical mensurations of all Altitudes Longitudes Latitudes Distances and Profundities as many myles of as the eye may well see and discerne most speedily exactly and familiarly without any maner of Arithmeticall calculation easily to be learned and practised euen by the vnlettered Newlie compiled and at this time published for the speciall helpe of shooting in great Ordinance and other millitarie seruices and may as well be imployed by the ingenious for measuring of land and to a number of other good purposes both Geometricall and Astronomicall By IOHN BLAGRAVE of Reading Gentleman the same wellwiller to the Mathematickes The vse of which Familiar staffe is also so generall that it readily performeth all the seuerall vses of the Crosse staffe the Quadrate the Circle the Quadrante the Gunners Quadrante the Trigon euery one in his owne kinde and with no lesse methode and facillitie both for Sea and Land LONDON Printed by Hugh Iackson dwelling in Fleetestreete a litle beneath the Conduit at the signe of S. Iohn the Euangelist 1590. To the Right Honourable Sir Fraunces Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Maiesties Household and of her Highnesse most Honourable priuie Counsell WHen that I had right Honourable with an earnest intent to proceede very farre in the Mathematikes published my late booke of the Mathematicall Iewell dedicated euen of meere duety vnto the right Honourable Lord Burleigh Lord high treasurer of England whom from the aboundance of my hart I can not but with your Honours good fauour as a Myrror of Iustice and pietie a Patterne of true Honour and Nobilitie not onely at this time againe but during life in all my good actions to remember Yet not long after espying my yeares to run on the world to slip away by me whiles I was occupied in these studies that brought nothing but delight and withall remembring thé example of the silly Grashopper and the saying non semper erit estas I began in maner to droupe and languish as one out of hope and euen vpon point either to giue them ouer or to attend them at more leasure which of all thinges those studies may not like because they rather more earnestly require a mans whole indeuour Sticking fast in this mammering of dispaire your Honour beyond all exspectation or cogitation of mine drawes me forth of the poore countrie Cabin where obscurely I lurked into your more open presence and there so adorned and beautified me with your Honourable curtesies and fauour so renoumed my name at the Court amongst persons of high regard and not content therewith without any least desart of mine of purpose as I take it to encourage me to proceed thereby not a litle bewraying your Honours hidden skill and secret good will to the Mathematicke sciences most liberally bestowed on me a yearely pension or stipend that verifying the old Adage Honos alit artes I was enforced againe to my former Byas and so much the more strongly to the end that your Honour conceaued opinion of me and fauourable auouchments in my behalfe should not be vtterly made void earnestly bending vpon those pointes which may most helpe or forward Nauigators for their long voyages and new discoueries being now almost prepared and in point to furnish them with such familiar instruments and precepts carrying no lesse facilitie then this treatise doth that them selues shall bee able to strengthen their owne nauigations in whatsoeuer arte may assist them But lest in the meane time whiles I am thus busied euen to the vttermost of that leasure which this diuers world alloweth me I should be thought to sleepe of your Honour of whom I haue beene so many waies fauourably incyted I could not but exact so much intermission from those waightie actions as to seeke about in my Mathematicke storehouse for some ready present wherewith I might the whiles shew my selfe broad waking vnto your H. And all sodeinly as I was tossing and seeking me thought I hard the fresh sound in mine eares of the peece of Ordinance I saw your H. shoote off at Greyes this last sommer Thereupon I sought no further but seeing your H. both by your honourable office and course of yeares to carry a staffe with that conceite bent my head wholy to metamorphose that instrument which by chaunce I then shewed vnto your H. others there vnto a Mathematicall staffe fit for so noble a mind as your H. hath euen frō your first knighthood wonne in the field hetherto carried and dayly expresseth by diuers such noble and martiall exercises And the same staffe cleane void of all loftie florishes singuler easie to be conceiued euen for the vnlettered to learne and worke by without any manner of arithmeticall calculation although I know your H. most aboundantly farre to exceede any ordinary Arithmetician and not deuoid of some partes Geometricall Which staffe as effectually framed as my selfe and my man whom purposly to forward these actions I haue euer since your Honours saide liberalitie bestowed retained cold without any first patterne contriue I most humbly present to your H. together with this treatise of the vse thereof beseeching God to prosper your H. in all your honourable actions Your Honours most humble at command Iohn Blagraue A Table of the Chapters and Contentes of this present booke following Chap. 1. WHat mooued the Author at this time to publish so much of this instrument his vse as he now setteth foorth Chap. 2. Of the imperfections of the crosse staffe called by Gemma Frisius Baculus Geometricus and by howe much this Familliar Staffe exceedeth it and all other instrumentes hetherto deuised to like purposes both for sufficiency and facillity Chap. 3. Of the framing and fashioning of this notable instrument called the Familiar Staffe Chap. 4. How you shall in a singular sort set degrees on the leuel of the running staffe and also on his Graduator together with the pointes of the Gunners quadrant Chap. 5. How by this Familiar Staffe to leuell or try whether a peece of ground be leuell whereon to plant your peece of ordinance Chap. 6. How by this Familliar Staffe to mount a piece of ordinance by points of the Gunners quadrant Chap. 7. By what meanes a certaine Table is to be made therby to know how farre any piece wil shoot at random being mounted to any point of the gunners quadrant Chap. 8. Hauing made a Table of Randomes to some one piece according to the precept in the last chapter How by this Familiar Staffe to make the same table serue for any other piece without any Arythmeticall calculation Angular easie Chap. 9. If a Wall or Tower were to be scaled and that you may come vnto the base of it without daunger How by this Familiar staffe