A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...

Breda after the siege ; it had not, however, like C. H. G.'s the advantage of
the Author's commendation ; also, both its printing and its spelling are bad.
The place of its publication, Louvain, had two Irish Colleges, one for
Franciscans, the other for Dominicans ; and Cotton ' states that these
monks published several EngUsh and Irish books.
112. SIxteen-twenty-seven. Dansie, John.
A Mathematical! Manuel : Wherein Is handled Arithmeticke,
pla- nimetry, stereometry, and the
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embattelling
of armies. Whereby Any man that can but add and subtract,
may learne to multiply
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and divide in two houres by
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Rabdologie, without any trou- ble at all to the memorie.
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.... Written by lohn Dansie student in
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the Mathematiques.
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London^
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Printed by William lones \for Richard Cart-
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Duodecimo.
Collation. Ded. to Sir Paul Pinder, A2-3.— Pref., A32-4.—R.H., varied.
—Sigs. in 12% A-E4; E4, blank.
Copies. B.M.
Contents. Adapted from Napier. Pp. 78-82 show the application of
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Rabdologie," or " Napiers
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bones," to military purposes. The author informs
his readers that " instruments may be bought from him ready made."
or, Militarie Instructions for the
113. Sixteen-twenty-seven. Kellie, Sir Thomas.
Pallas Armata,
Learned :
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And all Generous Spirits, who affeCt the Profession
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of Armes.
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The First Part, Containing the Exercise of In-
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fanterie, as well
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set downe all the
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and Motions, belonging to Battallions
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Ancient,
as Moderne : Wherein are Clearely
Postures
Printed at Edinburgh, by the Heires of Andro
Hart. 1627.
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Quarto.
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"Typog. Gazetteer," Oxford, 1831.
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Lord Napier of Merchistoun, the inventor of Logarithms. For some military inventions
by him see an original document preserved among the MSS. of Anthony
Bacon, Esq., in the Lambeth Library, marked 658, anno 1596; see also "Tilloch's
Philosophical Magazine," 1804, 8vo, vol. xviii. p. 53.
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