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.
Author
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 21, 2025.

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How you may wanting men and oxen to draw any peece of Ordinance, know how ma∣ny horses is requisite to draw the same.

Also I noted before, that 3 horses would serue to draw a Fawcon of 900 pound weight: I demand how many horses will serue to draw a Cannon of 9000 pound

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weight? In working as before, the quotient is 30, so ma∣my horses is requisite for that purpose: which peece, her weight deuided by the number of horses appointed to draw the same, the quotient sheweth that euery horse drew 300 pound weight. In this order you may know what number of men, horses, or oxen, is able to draw a∣ny peece of Ordinance, and what euery one seuerally doth draw.

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