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

• Autore: Nye Nathaniel <b. 1624.>
• Pubblicazione: London, : printed for William Leak, at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates, 1648
• Descrizione fisica: [24], 88, 102 p., [4] leaves of plates : port., ill., fold. tables
• Soggetto topico: Gunnery; Gunpowder
• Persona (resp. second.): NyeNathaniel <b. 1624.>
• Note generali: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0204
• Titolo autorizzato: The art of gunnery
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996397612003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno