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Autore |
Nye Nathaniel <b. 1624.> |
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Titolo |
The art of gunnery [[electronic resource] ] : 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 |
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London, : printed for William Leak, at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates, 1648 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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[24], 88, 102 p., [4] leaves of plates : port., ill., fold. tables |
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Note generali |
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With a frontispiece portrait of Nye, engraved, woodcut illustrations, and 4 non-conjugate leaves (text and folding tables) sewn in. |
"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. |
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