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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52587	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.	Nye, Nathaniel, b. 1624.	1647 (1647)	Wing N1481; ESTC R223771	65,085	215

THE ART OF GUNNERY Wherein is described the true way to make all sorts of Gunpowder Gun-match 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 LONDON Printed for William Leak at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet between the two Temple Gates 1647. To the Right Honourable the EARLE of LINDSEY Lord great CHAMBERLAIN of ENGLAND Right Honourable THE patronage of Arts being hereditary to your noble Ancestors especially that of War wherein so many of the famous ●ERTU'S have been transcendently glorious encouraged these few sheets of mine to crave the protection of your Lordships favour against the malicious ignorance of this unhappy age The addresses I do humbly acknowledge savour of too much boldnesse the Treatise short and the Authour not of yeares Confident to present pieces worthy of your Lordships favour or perusall Yet the matter in it selfe being Noble and suitable to these times and the well known propensity in your Lordships nature to cherish ingenuous endevours with the particular service I ever did owe and beare to your Lordship and Noble Family occasioned these bold addresses Of your Lordships my LORD most humble Servant N. NYE To the READER LOving Friend the cause moved me to set Pen to paper to write such a Treatise as this Book of Gunnery was because that in all the Books of this Art yet Printed I never saw one that gave ample directions to attein to any knowledge without the Art of Arithmetick I do also verily believe that when a man hath learned that Art in whole Numbers and Fractions as also to extract the Square and Cube Roots that he wil be without any of their directions able to doe that which divers of them imploy half their Books to teach in this my Treatise I have added divers Tables for thy help to resolve those things which are elswhere taught to be resolved by Arithmetick and if thou hast knowledge in that excellent Art here are things worth thy observation I am sure divers of them were never published before And whatsoever thou findest in my Fire-works I do protest to thee that I have made and still do make practice of them my self having by experience found them the best of all others that ever I have read of or that are taught by Bate Babington Norton Tartaglia or Malthus if any man shall make the least doubt of what I have said I am ready to resolve him And to conclude according as thou findest the truth of what I have written so give thy doom I rest Thy loving Friend Nathanael Nye Arts Mathematicall in Worcester Professed by Nath. Nye Mathematician these Arts Sciences and Faculties here under expressed Arithmetick In whole Numbers and Fractions Extraction of Roots Square Cube Of Astronomicall Fractions Geometry The Principles with the Practice and Demonstration Measuring of Land and reducing of Plots or Maps to any Proportion Measuring of any superficiall or solid content as Board Glasse Timber Stone Gaging of Vessels the exactest way Description Demonstration and use of Instruments Quadrant Theodelite Plain Table Circumferenter Circular Scale Mathematicall Scale or Sector Rules by Master Gunter coverted into a Crosse-staff Astronomy The use and demonstration of the Sphear or Globe both Caelestiall and Terrestriall The Caelestiall Globe in Plain Navigation The Principles thereof with the making of divers Instruments befitting that Art The use and Projection of Maps and Charts To finde the true longitude at Sea To calculate the true motion of the heavens and to find the eclipses for any time either past present or to come To make Dials of all sorts either fixed or instrumentall The cause why the art of Gunnery is not of that esteem as such a noble Art deserveth and who are the causers and disesteemers of it Chap. 18 The properties office and duty of a Gunner Chap. 19 What qualifications every man ought to have when he first gets commission to be a Gunner Chap. 20 How to make the dispart of any true bored peece of Ordnance Chap. 21 To know whether your Peece be Chamber bered Chap. 22 To know what diameter every shot must be of to fit any Ordnance Chap. 23 To finde what flaws cracks and honycombes are in every Peece of Ordnance Chap. 24 To finde the diameter of any round shot by its Circumference Cahp 25 How by knowing the height and weight of one shot to know the weight of any other the height being given Chap. 26 How by knowing the height and weight of one shot to finde the height of any other shot the weight being given Chap. 27 To finde what proportion there is between bullets of iron lead brasse and stone and by knowing the weight of one foot of one mettall to finde the weight of any other shot of any of those mettals of that diameter Chap. 28 A Table to find the weight of any shot of iron lead or stone from two inches diameter to eight inches exactly calculated Chap. 29 How to make a shot of lead and stone of the like weight as a shot of iron is of being of the same height Chap. 30 How by knowing the weight of one Peece of Ordnance to know the weight of any other Peece of that same mettall or of any other mettall being neer of a shape Chap. 31 How by knowing what quantity of powder will load one Peece of Ordnance to know how much will load any other Peece Chap. 32 To finde whether a Peece of Ordnance be true bored or no. Chap. 33 A description of all sorts of Ordnance from the Cannon to the base of their weight loding shot and all other things apperteining to them Chap. 34 Of iron Ordnance what quantity to allow for heir loding Chap. 35 To know what quantity of pouder should be al●wed to a Peece not truly bored Chap. 36 How to make Cartreges for Ordnance and how to fill them by help of an inch Rule to so many pounds and ounces as you please chap. 37 How to give levell to a peece of Ordnance to make a shot at any mark within point blank Chap. 38 How if the first shot do carry to the right or left or under or over the mark to amend it in making the next shot Chap. 39 Of the Gunners Quadrant which is to be used in shooting at Randon and