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.

To his Judicious Friend the Author Capt. SAMUEL STURMY, ON HIS MAGAZINE of ARTS.

READER, Survey, with an impartial Eye, The Care, the Pains, the Art, the Industry, And Charge, at which the Author, long, hath been, To Store (with Plenty) this his MAGAZEEN; Or, rather, MART OF ARTS; where you may buy (For little Money) INGENUITY: And be Partaker of those Arts we call Sciences Liberal, MATHEMATICAL: He having taken Pains on th' Deep and Shore, Grasping and Grap'ling to increase his Store; And after all his Toil and Pains (thus spent) Gives it his Country for an Ornament. Ransack this CASCATE (therefore) where you'l find Plenty of JEWELS to adorn the Mind.

And first, is represented to your Eye Selected Problems in GEOMETRY.* 1.1

In NAVIGATION* 1.2 Rules it doth afford, Will make Men Sea-men e're they go aboard: And when Embarked on the Ocean far, May Steer from th' Artick to th' Antartick Star;

And so, with Prudence, may a Voyage make Over the Ocean's Universal Lake: No Places distance hindring of Commerce, Having free Traffick through the Universe.

The GEODECIAN, in this Book,* 1.3 may have Rules to Survey his Land, and then his Grave,

VINERIUS now will find it no hard Task To know he hath his Due, and Gauge his Cask.* 1.4

Here MURIFRAGUS certain Skill may gain To reach his Mark, making no Shot in vain.* 1.5

And fair URANIA leads you by the Hand, Descrying how the Spheres to understand; Ʋnlocking all the Hidden Treasury, And Secret Myst'ries in ASTRONOMY.* 1.6

In HOROMETRIA Skill you may attain,* 1.7 To trace Sol's Course out on a Dial Plain.

And the MUNITOR hither may resort For Rules whereby to Fabricate his Forr,* 1.8 To Spring his Myne, and also Sconces raise Against his Foes, to his Renown and Praise.

And to the Trader it will be a Treasure, Yielding him Knowledge both in Weights and Measure.

With this, and such like beneficial Skill, Our Author This his MAGAZINE did fill; And that for th' Good and Benefit of those Who honour Vertue, and to Vice are Foes. Consider, then, th' elaborate Pains he took, And thank him as thou profit'st by his BOOK.

WILL. LEYBOURN.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Geometry.
• * 1.2

  Navigation.
• * 1.3

  Surveying.
• * 1.4

  Gauging.
• * 1.5

  Gunnery.
• * 1.6

  Astronomy.
• * 1.7

  Dialling.
• * 1.8

  Fortification.