A remedie to lay your peece straight, if she lie either ouer, vnder, or wide of the marke.
Let a plumbe line fall perpendicularly ouer the mid∣dle part of the breech of the peece, and with a hand-spike
The arte of gunnerie. Wherein is set foorth a number of seruiceable secrets, and practical conclusions, belonging to the art of gunnerie, by arithmeticke skill to be accomplished: both pretie, pleasant, and profitable for all such as are professors of the same facultie. / Compiled by Thomas Smith of Barwicke vpon Tweed souldier.
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- The arte of gunnerie. Wherein is set foorth a number of seruiceable secrets, and practical conclusions, belonging to the art of gunnerie, by arithmeticke skill to be accomplished: both pretie, pleasant, and profitable for all such as are professors of the same facultie. / Compiled by Thomas Smith of Barwicke vpon Tweed souldier.
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- Smith, Thomas, fl. 1600-1627.
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- London :: Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonby,
- 1600 [-1601].
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- Gunnery -- Early works to 1800.
- Artillery -- Early works to 1800.
- Ordnance -- Early works to 1800.
- Military fireworks -- Early works to 1800.
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"The arte of gunnerie. Wherein is set foorth a number of seruiceable secrets, and practical conclusions, belonging to the art of gunnerie, by arithmeticke skill to be accomplished: both pretie, pleasant, and profitable for all such as are professors of the same facultie. / Compiled by Thomas Smith of Barwicke vpon Tweed souldier." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12531.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 31, 2025.
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or leuer, winde the carriage of the peece too and fro till you espie the middle part of the mettall at the mouth of the peece, and the said line deuide the marke in 2 equall partes: so shall you make a streight shot, gi∣uing the peece her true disparture and length.
Another way.
Or you may take the true diameter of the concaue at the mouth of the peece, laying an inch rule to the same, deuide the said diameter in 2 equall partes; to the point of which deuision being the center of the cilinder of the peece, let a threed and plummet fall, or else erect a squire, so as the containing angle touch the center or middle point of the diameter, by the edge of which rule or squire draw a line with the point of your knife, from the height of the mettall at the mouth: that line would crosse in the center if it were continued, and it is a perpendicular or plumbe line to the other, by which line or strike so drawne, with a litle peece of soft waxe, set vp a straight straw, to reach a litle aboue the mettall. And knowing likewise the midle mettall at the breech of the peece, it is an easie matter to make a straight shot, if the 2 sights (to wit) the sight at the breech and mouth be laid so as they deuide the said marke in 2 partes: for this is generall, that any three thinges that the eye can comprehend at once, being equall with the eye, are in a streight line from the eye, whether the same be at ascent or descent.
The line or strike thus drawne at the mouth of the peece, will shew you presently where and how to set vp your disparture of your peece at any occasion.