The mariners magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts containing the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler, that resolves most mathematical conclusions, and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals, and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation, resolved geometrically, instrumentally, and by calculation, and by that late excellent invention of logarithms, in the three principal kinds of sailing : with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation ..., a new way of surveying land ..., the art of gauging all sorts of vessels ..., the art of dialling by a gnomical scale ... : whereunto is annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed, relating to the customs and navigation : also a compendium of fortification, both geometrically and instrumentally / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.

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Sturmy, Samuel, 1633-1669.

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"The mariners magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts containing the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler, that resolves most mathematical conclusions, and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals, and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation, resolved geometrically, instrumentally, and by calculation, and by that late excellent invention of logarithms, in the three principal kinds of sailing : with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation ..., a new way of surveying land ..., the art of gauging all sorts of vessels ..., the art of dialling by a gnomical scale ... : whereunto is annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed, relating to the customs and navigation : also a compendium of fortification, both geometrically and instrumentally / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61915.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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Admit you enter the Table with a Saker of the lowest sort, the height of the bore is 3 4/8 Inches, 8 foot long, the weight 1400, breadth of the Ladle 6 4/8, length 9 6/8 Inch. weight of the Powder 3 pound 6 ounces, diameter of the Shot 3 2/8, weight of the Shot 4 pound 12 ounces, and the paces the Piece carries, by Alex. Bianco's Tables is 150 of 5 foot to the Piece.

Observe that the Ladle is but 3 diameters of the Shot in length, and 3/5 parts of the Circumference from the Canon, to the whole Culvering, I allow the Charge of Pow∣der to be about two diameters of the Piece: from the Culvering to the Minion; the Charge to fill two diameters and a half; all from the Minion to the Base three dia∣meters of Powder.

The names of the Pieces of Ordnance.	Diameter of the Bore.	Length of the Gun.	Weight of the Gun in pounds.	Breadth of the Ladle.	Length of the Ladle.	Weight of the Powder.	Diameter of the Shot.	The weight of the Shot.	He shoots point blank.
The	Inches. Parts.	Feet. Inches.	Pounds	Inches. Parts.	Inches. Parts.	Pounds. Ounces.	Inches. Parts.	Pounds. Ounces.	Paces.
	⌊8	⌊8		⌊8	⌊8		⌊8
A Base.	1:2	4:6	200	2:0	4:0	0:8	1:1	0:5	60
A Rabanet.	1:4	5:6	300	2:4	4:1	0:12	1:3	0:8	70
Fauconets.	2:2	6:0	400	4:0	7:4	1:4	2:2	1:5	90
Faucons.	2:6	7:0	750	4:4	8:2	2:4	2:5	2:8	130
Ordinary Minion.	3:0	7:0	750/800	5:0	8:4	2:8	2:7	3:4	120
Minion of the largest size.	3:2	8:0	1000	5:0	9:0	3:4	3:0	3:12	125
Saker the lowest sort.	3:4	8:0	1400	6:4	9:6	3:6	3:2	4:12	150
Ordinary Sakers.	3:6	9/9:0	1500	6:6	10:4	4:0	3:4	6:0	160
Sakers of the oldest sort.	4:0	10:0	1800	7:2	11:0	5:0	3:6	7:5	163
Lowest Demiculvering.	4:2	10:0	2000	8:0	12:0	6:4	4:0	9:0	174
Ordinary Demiculvering.	4:4	10/10:0	2700	8:0	12:6	7:4	4:2	10:11	175
Elder sort of Demiculvering.	4:6	12/13:0	3000	8:4	13:4	8:8	4:4	12:11	178
Culverings of the best size.	5:0	12/10:0	4000	9:0	14:2	10:0	4:6	15:0	180
Ordinary Culvering.	5:2	12/13:	4500	9:4	16:0	11:6	5:0	17:5	181
Culvering of the largest size.	5:4	12/10:0	4800	10:0	16:0	11:8	5:2	20:0	183
Lowest Demicanon.	6:2	11:0	5400	11:4	20:0	14:0	6:0	30:0	156
Ordinary Demicanon.	6:4	12:0	5600	12:0	22:0	17:8	6:⅙	32:0	162
Demicanon of great size.	6:6	12:0	6000	12:0	22:6	18:0	6:5	36:0	180
Canon Royal, or of	8:0	12:	8000	14:6	24:0	32:8	7:4	58:0	185