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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08351	Of the art of great artillery, viz. The explanation of the most excellent and necessary definitions, and questions, pronounced and propounded, by that rare souldier and mathematician, Thomas Digges Esquire and by him published, in his Stratiaticos, and Pantometria, concerning great ordinance, and his theorems thereupon. Together, vvith certaine expositions, and answers thereunto adioyned: written by Robert Norton gunner. And by him dedicated, to the worshipfull Iohn Reinolds Esquire, master gunner of England.	Norton, Robert, d. 1635.	1624 (1624)	STC 18676; ESTC S119503	26,924	57

OF THE ART OF GREAT ARTILLERY Viz. THE EXPLANATION of the most excellent and necessary Definitions and Questions pronounced and propounded by that rare Souldier and Mathematician Thomas Digges Esquire and by him published in his Stratiaticos and Pantometria concerning great Ordinance and his Theorems thereupon Together VVith certaine Expositions and answers thereunto adioyned Written by Robert Norton Gunner And by him Dedicated to the Worshipfull Iohn Reinolds Esquire Master Gunner of England LONDON Printed by Edw Allde for Iohn Tap and are to bee sold at his Shop at the corner of Saint Magnus Church 1624. ¶ To the Worshipfull John Reinolds Esquire Master Gunner of England Robert Norton Gunner wisheth all health and happinesse GOod Sir as your sometimes Scholler your now substitute giue me leaue to shew some part of my dutifull thankfulnesse for your many louing fauours receiued your kinde instructions your free helping hand to the beginning of my encouragement by your louing Certificate to the right Honourable the Lord Carew Mr. of his Maiesties Ordinance of my sufficiency to performe the place and Office of a Gunner for his Maiesties seruice I therefore haue presumed to demonstrate a part of my duty herein the rather for the louing respect you haue euer shewed vnto me and to all others vnder your Commaund that endeuour to become seruiceable for our King and Countrey by the diligent practise in the excellent Art of great Artillery It being my chance of late Sir to turne ouer Mr. Digges his Bookes intituled Stratiaticos and Pantometria to light vpon certaine dificill Definition obscure Theorems and some subtill questions concerning the vse of great Ordinance which as Mr. Diggs there saith though he long since publikely propounded them that none hath yet vndertaken to answer any one of them wherefore in his last edition with short Marginall notes yes and no himselfe hath darkly resolued some of them as hereafter in the Margent appeareth whereof I haue vndertaken to make a more plaine Exposition of them the rest aswell for mine own as for others furtherance And wheras he hath there coated certaine published Errors in this Science I haue thought fit to ioyne them together with some other Errors that I haue also espied in other Authors writing of this Art All which I haue presumed to publish vnder your iuditious Patronage hoping that my willing pains shal neither incurre disgrace nor displease but rather that these my first Fruits wil be accepted with such loue as I truly offer them whereby I shall be encouraged with your good leaue hereafter to proceed further with my Treatise of the Art of Artillery wherein I perswade my selfe that the most necessary particulars belonging to the Gunners Art are more acutely shewed then in any other Treatise in any Language yet extant And so I shall endeuour to deserue the continuance of your loue and fauour and will rest at his Lordships and your Worships command both whom I pray God euer to blesse Robert Norton The Preface TO commend the Art and Practice of Artillery it were vtterly needlesse for that it is apparant that all other Sciences are therein vsed as in their conuenient and proper Medium and grounded on supreme vertue seeing that without it no Kingdome or Common-weale can either bee or continue in Peace or defend it selfe nor offend their Enemies it being the powerfull Regent in our Modern Millitia for that it destroyeth Enemies depresseth Tyrants chasteneth Rebels encreaseth Dominions and is the common make-peace and Conseruor of tranquillity in Kingdomes and Common-weales It consisteth of many ingenious Theoricall and Practicall parts wherein Knowledge must be the Pylot of Action or else the action will proue but sillily simple The Theorick in this as in all other Sciences being the fundamentall ground-worke of the practicke part thereof Therefore Knowing from Doing must be no more seperated then Letters from Armes this made the Hebrew Egiptian and Persian Souldiers to be aswell Priests as Gentlemen and the Grecians to be both Philosophers and Captaines and the Romaines to be both Souldiers and Schollers whereby each of them got for their Nation a world of honour M. Diggs said very well that it fares in this Art as in Soldiary and in Nauigation for as many a priuate Souldier whose braines will only reach how to stand Sentinell and to March to his Guard yet takes himselfe to be a perfect Souldier but if once his wit bee capable to become Corporall of the field or Sargeant Maior then he comes to see his former ignorance and wants Euen so the Common Saylor if he can but say his Compasse furle a Sayle and take turne at Helme and Lead doth lesse know his ignorance then such a Master or Pilot at hath sayled a ship by his Chart Compasse and Art round the world And so likewise in this Art many silly Gunners that neuer sounded the deepe Channell of this Art will not sticke to say they know enough and scorne to learne more when they God knowes vnderstand not the first principles of good Art or practise but if by chance or mischance they made a good shott once though without vnderstanding of the true cause of it it must vphold their reputation for euer and be sufficient to make Fooles proud This may chance to be returned me home yet I care not for I hope to escape the name of a Coward though my purse be cudgelled for that I haue taken vp those weapons that with a challenge were laid downe so long agoe But let them that are enuious commendor come mend it and so I end Theirs that loue Art and Practise Robert Norton Certaine Definitions taken out of Mr. Digges his Pyrotechnie and published in his Pantometria concerning Great Ordinance Explaned by R. N. Gunner Mr. Digges FOR as much as by the hollow Cylinder or Trunke of the Peece the violence of all shotte of Great Artillerie is not onely directed but also increased I call that hollow Cylinder of the Peece her Soule Mr. Norton This Soule is vsually termed by the most experienced Gunners the Concaue Cylinder or Bore of the Peece And when she is loaded so much thereof as containeth her Charge is called her Chamber or Charged Cylinder whether she be Equally Bored or Camber Bored and the rest that is vnfilled is called the vacant Cylinder of her Bore M. D. The Mettaline substance of the Peece of what shape kinde or proportion soeuer I call The Body of the Peece M. N. The seuerall parts of the Mettallyne substance of each Peece are distinctly knowne to Gunners by diuers and seuerall Names As the thickest of her Mettall at the most eminent ring of her Breech is called her Base-ring or Carnooze the whole length of her shaft is called her Chase and those parts of Mettall that M. Digges else-where calls her Eares are by Gunners called her Trunnions and before her Trunnions that part of her chase towards her Neck which is neere the Mouth is called her