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The art of gunnery : Wherein is described the true way to make all sorts of gunpowder, guu-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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nye, Nathaniel, 1624-
- Nye, Nathaniel, 1624- Treatise of artificiall fire-works for warre and recreation, author.
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gunnery--Early works to 1800.
- Gunnery.
- Gunpowder--Early works to 1800.
- Gunpowder.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages, 88, 102 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates) : portrait, illustrations, folded tables
- Other Title:
- Treatise of artificiall fire-works for warre and recreation.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for William Leak, at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates, 1648.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- With a frontispiece portrait of Nye, engraved, woodcut illustrations, and 4 non-conjugate leaves (text and folding tables) sewn inches.
- "The art of gunnery. Chap. 38." begins 2nd pagination and register; text is continuous.
- "A treatise of artificiall fire-works for warre and recreation." has separate dated title page (1647); pagination and register are continuous (2nd series).
- Reproduction of the original in the Gonville and Caius College Library, Cambridge.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1856:12) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- Wing (2nd edition) N1482
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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