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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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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London :: Printed by E. Cotes for G. Hurlock, W. Fisher, E. Thomas, and D. Page ...,
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 8, 2024.
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SECT. V. How to make Hand-Granadoes to be hove by Hand.
THere is good use made of Hand-Granadoes in assaults, and Boarding of Ships, and there be two sorts of them made; the first is shewed already,* 1.1 the second is made by Sea-Gunners upon a Mould made with Twine, and covered over with Car∣tredge-Paper, and Musquet-Bullets cut in two, put with Past and bits of Paper thick on the out-side; after you have doubled the Shells, Paste on some at a time, and let it drie, and then some more, until he is quite full; then dip him in scalding Rozin, or Pitch, and hang him up, and he is for your use; but you must have the innermost end of the Twine. which must be left out at the small hole for the Fuse; and before you Pitch it, you are to wind it out, and stop the hole, and then Pitch it.
To Load them, fill these small Shells with Gun-Powder, then make a Fuse of one Pound of Gun. Powder, six Ounces of Salt-Peter, and one of Char-cole; or if you will have them of less durance, you may take the Composition made for the Fuses be∣fore spoken of for great Granadoes, knock the Fuse up to the head within one quarter of an Inch, which is only to find it by in the night; stop well the rest of the holes if any Chinks are open, with soft Wax; then your first Shells must be coated with Pitch and Hurds, lest it should break with the fall; and be sure when you have Fired the Fuse, suddenly to cast it out of your hand, and it will do good execution.
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* 1.1
The Sdells are made of Glass, or nelld Clay, or Paper.