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

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'also in come gunpowder,
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to shoote well at any marke within
point blanke, to shoote well at any marke vpon a hill,
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or in
a valley without poynt blanke, to shoote well at a marke in
any darke night, to mount morter peeces to strike any
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appointed marke, to tell whether a thing seene farre of doth
stand still, come towards him, or goe from him, to make
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and vse diuers Trunkes, and many
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sortes of fire workes, to
make mynes, to measure altitudes, longitudes, latitudes, and
pro-
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fundities, to draw the true plat of any place, and to do
other commendable things which not
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onelie in time of
warre, but also in time of peace may to a good end be practised.
Anno domini. 1588.
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Folio.
Collation, Tp., .M.—Arms of Dudley, .Mj and Gfa- —Harrison's Ded.
to Robert, Earl of Leicester, .•.2-3.—Tartaglia's Ded. to Henry VIII., .•.32-4.
—Verses, .•.42.—Arms of Lucar, G42 and R7.—2nd title, G5.—R.H.
" The first (-third) booke of Colloquies " and " Lucar Appendix."—Col.
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Printed by Thomas Dawson, for lohn Harrison the elder,
at the Signe of the Greyhounde in Paules Churchyarde, And are there to
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be solde.
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1588.
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", R62.—Err., R72.—Separate pag. to each treatise, but
continuous sigs., ,',(4 fF.), A-Q in 6% and R (8 fF., the last blank).
apies. B.M. ; Roy. Art. Inst. ; W.O.
Contents. A translation of Bks. I., IL, and III. of the " Quesiti et Invention!
Diverse" of Tartaglia. I append a translation of the headings of Bks.
IV., v., and VI., which have not been turned into English ; Bks. VII., VIII.,
and IX. do not deal with military matters. Bk. IV. Concerning the ordering of
armies in battle in various and diverse forms and the manner of dividing them
while on the march.
Also ... a new way of suddenly changing a square formation
into a *' wedge " without disarranging the first order, with other particulars.
Bk. V. On drawing correctly with the compass places, districts,
and also the plans of cities, with the manner of making the said compass in
two ways ; which science by Ptolemy is called Choregraphy. Bk. VI. On
the manner of fortifying cities in these days, so as to withstand the heavy
blows of artillery by the strength of the outline, with other ingenious particulars,
never till now heard of or even thought of. Tartaglia's first work, the
"Nuova Scientia," of which the "Quesiti" is an enlargement, is in three Bks.
[V. 658] ; the headings of two more appear in the Table of Contents, but
these were never published : Bk, I. On falling bodies and projectiles. Bk. II.
On the flight of projectiles. Bk. III. On the measurements of heights and
distances.
Bk. IV. was to be on the laying of guns, and Bk. V. on Fireworks.
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