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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.
Alternate title: Treatise of artificiall fire-works for warre and recreation.
Bibliographic name/number: Wing (2nd ed.) / N1482.
Nye, Nathaniel, b. 1624. EEBO Gonville & Caius College Library, University of Cambridge records - unstructured. [24], 88, 102 p., [4] leaves of plates :. London: printed for William Leak, at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates, 1648.
Bibliographic name/number: Wing (2nd ed.) / N1482.
Nye, Nathaniel, b. 1624. EEBO Gonville & Caius College Library, University of Cambridge records - unstructured. [24], 88, 102 p., [4] leaves of plates :. London: printed for William Leak, at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates, 1648.
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