A light to the art of gunnery wherein is laid down the true weight of powder, both for proof and action, of all sorts of great ordnance : also the true ball and allowance for wind, with the most necessary conclusions for the practice of gunnery, either in sea or land-service : likewise the ingredients and making of most necessary fire-works, as also many compositions for the gunner's practice, both at sea and land / by Capt. Thomas Binning ...

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A light to the art of gunnery wherein is laid down the true weight of powder, both for proof and action, of all sorts of great ordnance : also the true ball and allowance for wind, with the most necessary conclusions for the practice of gunnery, either in sea or land-service : likewise the ingredients and making of most necessary fire-works, as also many compositions for the gunner's practice, both at sea and land / by Capt. Thomas Binning ...

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Binning, Thomas.

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London :: Printed by John Darby for the author, and are to be sold by Andrew Forrester ...,

1676.

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Gunnery -- Early works to 1800.

Artillery -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• frontispiece
• frontispiece
• title page
• TO THE High, Potent, and Noble Prince JOHN, Duke of Lauderdale, Marquess of March, Earl of Lauderdale and Guilford, Lord Thirselstane, Musleburgh, Bolton and Peter∣sham, Lord President of his Ma∣jesties Most Honourable Privy Councel of Scotland, and sole Se∣cretary of State for that King∣dom; one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Councel of Eng∣land, Gentleman of his Majesties Bed-Chamber, and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter.
• To the Reader.
• To the Praise of his Country-Man Capt. Thomas Binning.
• ERRATA.
• AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GUNNER, For his better Understanding.
  • What a Gunner ought to be, to whom the Charge is committed, and what he ought to know.
• Decimal Arithmetick.
  • CHAP. I. Definitions.
  • CHAP. II. Addition and Subduction in Decimals.
  • CHAP. III. Multiplication in Decimals.
  • CHAP. IV. Division in Decimals.
  • CHAP. V. Of the Square Root.
  • CHAP. VI. Extraction of the Square Root in Decimals.
  • CHAP. VII. Of the Cube Root.
  • CHAP. VIII. Extraction of the Cube Root in Decimals.
  • CHAP. IX. Another Example wrought by the Genitures.
  • CHAP. X. Principles of Geometry.
  • CHAP. XI. Geometrical Problems.
    • Prob. 1.
    • Prob. 2.
    • Prob. 3.
    • Prob. 4.
    • Prob. 5.
    • Prob. 6.
    • Prob. 7.
    • Prob. 8.
    • Prob. 9.
    • Prob. 10.
    • Prob. 11.
    • Prob. 12.
    • Prob. 13.
    • Prob. 14.
    • Prob. 15.
    • Prob. 16.
    • Prob. 17.
  • A Light to the Art of Gunnery.
  • CHAP. XIII. How to Extract the Wind from the Bore of a Peece Geometrically, and thereby to know a fit Ball for the same.
  • CHAP. XIV. The Demonstration of the Cannon-Bore, and of all other Peeces of Ordnance to the Rabinet, by Letters: As also the Geometrical Extracting or Deducing of the Wind or Vent of those Peeces, whereby you may know the exact Diameter of the true Ball fitting those Peeces.
  • CHAP. XV. The Reasons why I give Guns Powder according to their Fortifications.
  • CHAP. XVI.
  • CHAP. XVII. To find the Weight of an Iron Ball in English Inches Arithmetically for Scots Weight.
  • CHAP. XVII. The Use of the preceding Tables.
  • CHAP. XVIII. To Extract the Cube Root of a Number not Cubical.
  • CHAP. XIX. The way to find the Diameter of the first pound Ball.
  • CHAP. XX.
  • CHAP. XXI.
  • CHAP. XXII. To find the Diameter and Length of the Taper'd Chamber of a Peece.
  • CHAP. XXIII. For Chamber-Bored Guns.
  • CHAP. XXIV. To know the true Proportion of the Chambers of Ordnance.
  • CHAP. XXV. Therefore I will here give some needful Obser∣vations for Gunners of Ships.
  • CHAP. XXVI. How to Dispart a Peece of Ordnance.
  • CHAP. XXVII. How to level a Peece of Ordnance to shoot at Blank.
  • CHAP. XXVIII.
  • CHAP. XXIX. The way to Shoot a Ball from a Hill to a Valley, or from a Valley to a Hill.
  • CHAP. XXX. To know how to make as good a Shot by Night as by Day.
  • CHAP. XXXI. To know how far any Peece will shoot at any degree of Random.
  • CHAP. XXXII. The Geometrical Quadrant, with the Uses in Measu∣ring Distances, Heights, and Depths, and Distan∣ces most useful for a Gunner.
  • CHAP. XXXIII. Questions for the Practice of what hath been formerly taught.
  • CHAP. XXXIV. The Order and Necessaries for Guns to March by Land, they having six Demi-Cannons, six Sakers or De∣miculverings, with two Whole-Cannons, besides their Field-Ordnance.
  • CHAP. XXXI. By knowing the Weight of one Peece of Ordnance true-bored, to find the Weight of another true-bored Peece, being of the same Metal.
  • CHAP. XXXVI. By knowing the Weight of one Peece of Iron Ordnance, to find the Weight of another Peece of Iron Ord∣nance.
  • CHAP. XXXVII. Of Powder and its Ingredients.
• At the Six Stars in Wapping are Taught these Mathematical Sciences following.