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water_n	air_n	cold_a	moist_a	3,600	5	10.5118	5	false

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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

at a ship sayling in a river he ought to plant his peece towards a cloud or some evident marke on the other side the river and give fire to his peece when the fore part of the Ship shall begin to be between the mouth of the peece and the marke CHAP. 49. How to cause that the same quantity both of pouder and shot discharged out of the same Peece shall carry close or more scattering MAster John Bate in his Booke of Extravagants sayth Take the quantity of a pease of Opium and charge it amongst the case shot and it will make the said case shot fly closer together then otherwise it would this Master Bate sayth he learned of a Sea man who had made triall hereof as he sayes and unto whom Master Bate sold some for that purpose it is very probable for Opium is of a congealing and fixative nature CHAP. 50. How a shot which sticketh fast within the concavity of a Peece that it cannot be driven home unto the powder may be shot out without danger to the Gunner or hurt to the Peece WHen a peece of Artillery is charged with such a Shot as will not be driven home unto the powder then the Gunner to save this peece from breaking must so imbase the mouth thereof that faire water for two or three dayes being put in at the touch hole at severall times may run out into a vessell set under the mouth of the Gun to save all the Salt Peeter that was in the powder when these things are done the Gunner must prime the peece and put so much in at the touch-hole as will serve to drive out the shot But when a rusty shot hath for a long time stuck fast within the peece put strong Vineger in the mouth of the peece and with the rammer strike the shot till it doe move then poure the Vineger out again if it have soaked through the powder then prime with a little fresh powder and give fire if the Vineger could not passe by the shot amongst the powder then moysten the said powder with some water or Vineger when it is yet danke and moyst prime the touch-hole with good powder and give fire CHAP. 51. A merry conceit how to charge a Peeece of Ordnance without Gun-powder This may be done with aire and water onely having put cold water into the concavity of the peece filling one quarter of the Cylinder put in after it a Tampion of wood as long as broad perfectly made to fit the peece with an oyled cloath about it doubled either more or lesse that it might be two mens strength to put it home this done put in the shot elevate the peece a little and make a fire under the hinder part thereof the touch-hole being very close stopped then put the spunge of the peece in oyle and wet all the Cylinder of the peece with oyle that it may passe out the glibber for when the fire hath rarified the water it will burst out suddenly The experiment which we have in long Trunks shooting out pellats with aire onely proveth this also CHAP. 52. A Peece of Ordnance at one selfe same elevation and towards one selfe same place with the like quantity of powder and shot discharged severall times what ranges it will make I Have discharged a peece seven times in the space of 50 minutes with the like weight of powder shot and elevation and have found their ranges as following the first shot was conveyed 416 paces the second 436 the third 440 the fourth 432 the fifth 425 the sixth 410 the seventh 394 so that the greatest difference from the first shot was 24 paces these things must be kept in perfect memory by every one that learneth to shoot at randon or he shall be never good at that practice The reason of these things is this at the first shot the bullet found the aire quiet and at the second shoot it did not onely finde the aire stirred with the first shoot but also moving or tending towards the place at which it shot and because it is more easie to move and penetrate that which is already moved and open then that which is close and quiet it followeth that the second shot finding in his range a lesse resistance then the first did will out-fly the first A second reason is at the first shot the pouder being put in the peece doth often times finde the same somwhat moyst especially when it hath not been shot in for certain dayes before through which the pouder will not fire quickly as it doth when the peece is dry and temperately warme for this warmth or heat will somwhat dry up the moysture which is in the powder and cause it to fire sooner wherefore the powder doth not worke so forcibly in the first shoot as it doth in the second the third shoot and fourth will be much like the second now I will give you the reason why as the peece grows hotter one shot wil not out-shoot the last before it but every time come shorter and shorter The peece waxing hotter and by how much the more hotter by so much the more attractive is the concavity of the peece made and because the shot is driven forth or expelled with no other thing then by the airy exhalation or winde caused through the Salt peeter therefore by making such a peece the more attractive with the more heate which suppeth and reteineth continually more and more of that winde which should serve to expell the bullet the vertue expulsive in that peece doth continually more and more decrease and the shot flyeth not with that swiftnesse as it did before although the two first things that is the breaking of the aire and the drying of the powder every time more and more doth help much the range of the shot which aide and help as it is to be beleeved that somtimes it supplyeth and perchance gives advantage by that expulsive vertue which continually the peece doth diminish or sup in according as it heateth so that the third and fourth shoots will not be much differing from the second shoot neverthelesse in continuance of time the said two accidents that is the opening of the aire and drying the powder by the heat of the peece cannot supply the third accident that is the vertue attractive by reason the attraction is augmented as the peece heateth This caused my sixth and seventh shoots to convey the bullet 22 paces shorter then my first It is reported by Nicholas Tartaglia that many shoots being made at a battery by a peece it chanced by some occasion that the peece rose up in such sort that the mouth touched the ground a little dog passing by did smell unto the peeces mouth and by so doing was fast joyned to the peeces mouth and immediately after drawn into the said peece which thing when the standers by had seen some of them ran to helpe the said dog and although they found him to be drawn almost to the