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

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Quarto.
Collation. Tp., A I.—Ded. to Dudley, Earl of Warwick, A2.— Pref.,
A3-6.—Cts., N4.—Col.: "At London, Imprinted by Thomas Dawson for
Thomas woodcocke. An. Dom. 1587."— Diags.—R.H.: "The Arte of
shooting in great Ordnaunce."— Sigs. in 4*, A-N j
Copies. B.M.} Roy. Art. Inst.
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Of Shooting In Great Ordnance. Containing
Very Necessary Matters for all sorts of Servitours
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Written by William Bourne.
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The Gunners
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Norton, Robert.
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By Robert Norton
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The Art Of Great
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Printed in the yeare, 1643.
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Collation.
Tps., Ai and Ki.—Deds. to Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick,
A2, and to the Duke of Buckingham, K2.—Cts., A3.—Pref., B1-2.
Diags.—Tables (3 folding).—R.H.: "The Art of shooting in great Ordnance"
and "The Gunners Dialogue."—Sigs. in 4^, A-Ni.
Copies. B.M. ; Roy. Art. Inst.
Contents. As the first Englishman to write on gunnery. Bourne deserves
great credit, although little is to be found in his work that was not taken from
foreign books. Until it appeared, there was nothing printed in our language,
in a connected form, whereto a gunner could go for instruction, and as he
remarks. Englishmen had no knowledge of gunnery but what they had
learned of the Dutch and Flemings in the time of Henry VIII.
According
to Robins ("New Principles of Gunnery") he was the second writer to test
by experiment the theories of Tartaglia, Collado being the first. Bourne
mentions " ricochet fire," but does not advocate its use against works; it
remained for Vauban, just a hundred years later, to
make practical rules for
its employment, and to use it, with more or less success, at the sieges of
Phalsbourg and Mannheim in 1688, and of Aeth in 1697.
Containinge Offices,
36. Fifteen-eighty-seven. Rich, Barnaby.
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