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• The mariner's 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 ... (Printed by E. Cotes for G. Hurlock [etc.], 1669), by Samuel Sturmy and Philip Stanyerd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Protheo militare (Appresso Gio. Iacomo Carlino, & Antonio Pace, 1595), by Bartolomeo Crescentio Romano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Avvertimenti, et essamini intorno a quelle cose, che richiedono a un perfetto bombardiero (Presso Altobello Salicato, 1580), by Girolamo Cataneo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Büchsenmaister Discurs, eine neuerfundene Kugel Taffel (Gedruckt von Christoff Tschorn, 1662), by Georg Schreiber and Christoph Tschorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Furnembsten, notwendigsten, der gantzen Architectur angehörigen mathematischen vnd mechanischen Künst eygentlicher Bericht (Truckts Johan Petreius, 1547), by Walther Hermann Ryff, Hans Brosamer, Nicolaus Solis, and Peter Flötner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grund-Lehren der Artillerie : in welchen, nach der heut zu Tage üblichen Attaque derer Festungen, das Geschütze, als Stücke Mörser und Petarden nicht allein auf das gründlichste beschrieben, sondern auch deren Nutzen und Gebrauch klärlich gezeiget wird : nebst einem deutlichen Unterricht, allerley Arten von Ragetten Wasser-und Böler Kugeln bey unterschiedenen Lust-Feuern, leichtlich zu verfertigen und geschickt zusammen zusetzen : allen Ingenieuren, Büchsen-Meistern u. Liebhabern der Feuer-Wercker-Kunst, nach Anleitung derer allerbesten Autorum, so von dieser Disciplin geschrieben, zu Nutzen aufgesetzt, und mit nöthigen Anmerckungen und vielen Kupffern erkläret (Zufinden bey Johann Herbord Klossen ..., 1723), by Johann Christoph Meinig and Georg Schreiber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to fortification and practical gunnery (Printed for G. Robinson, in Pater-noster-row, 1774), by Francis Holliday (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sea-mans grammar and dictionary explaining all the difficult terms in navigation : and the practical navigator and gunner : in two parts / by Captain John Smith, sometimes governour of Virginia, and admiral of New England. (London : Printed and are to be sold by Randal Taylor ..., MDCXCI [1691]), by John Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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. (London : Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonby, 1600 [-1601]), by Thomas Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To hit a mark, as well upon ascents and descents, as upon the plain of the horizon experimentally and mathematically demonstrated / by Robert Anderson. (London : Printed for Robert Morden ..., 1690), by Robert Anderson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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 ... (London : Printed by John Darby for the author, and are to be sold by Andrew Forrester ..., 1676), by Thomas Binning (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The compleat cannoniere: or, The gunners guide Wherein are set forth exactly the chiefe grounds and principals of the whole art, in a very briefe and compendious forme, never by any set forth in the like nature before. With divers excellent conclusions, both arithmeticall and geometricall belonging thereunto: as also sundry serviceable fireworkes, both for sea and land service. A study delightfull and very usefull for men of the best quality, and imbrac'd by the greatest princes. Written by Iohn Roberts of Weston neere Bathe, Gentleman, practitioner and professor in the arte thereof. (London : Printed by J. Okes, and are to be sold by George Hurlock at his shop in Thames-street neere S. Magnus Church, 1639), by John Roberts (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Three bookes of colloquies concerning the arte of shooting in great and small peeces of artillerie, variable randges, measure, and waight of leaden, yron, and marble stone pellets, minerall saltepeeter, gunpowder of diuers sortes, and the cause why some sortes of gunpower are corned, and some sortes of gunpowder are not corned: written in Italian, and dedicated by Nicholas Tartaglia vnto the Royall Prince of most famous memorie Henrie the eight, late King of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, defender of the faith &c. And now translated into English by Cyprian Lucar Gent. who hath also augmented the volume of the saide colloquies with the contents of euery colloquie, and with all the corollaries and tables, that are in the same volume. Also the said Cyprian Lucar hath annexed vnto the same three books of colloquies a treatise named Lucar Appendix ... (Printed at London : [by Thomas Dawson] for Iohn Harrison [the elder], 1588), by Niccoláo Tartaglia and Cyprian Lucar (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The gunners dialogue. VVith the Art of great artillery. By Robert Norton, enginier. and gunner. (London : Printed [by Eliot's Court Press] for Iohn Tap, and are to be sold at his shop at Saint Magnus Corner, 1628), by Robert Norton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Treatise of artificiall fire-works for warre and recreation (London : printed for William Leak, at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates, 1647), by Nathaniel Nye (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The sea-gunner shewing the practical part of gunnery as it is used at sea : and, as an introduction thereto, there is exhibited two compendiums, one of vulgar, the other of decimal arithmetick, with necessary tables relating to that art : to which is added an appendix, shewing the use of a proportional scale gunnery, and the use off the sea-gunners rule ... / composed by John Seller, Senior. (London : Printed by H. Clark ... and are to be sold by him ..., 1691), by John Seller (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Practise of artillerie. (London : Printed by A[ugustine] M[athewes] for Humphrey Robinson, and are to be sold at the three Pidgeons in Paules-Churchyard, 1628), by Robert Norton and Theodor de Bry (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The compleat gunner in three parts : part I. shewing the art of founding and casting ... the composition and matters of gunpowders ... : part II. discovers the necessary instruments ... to the compleating of a gunner ... : pt. III. shews the nature of fire-works / translated out of Casimir, Diego, Uffano, Hexan, and other authors; to which is added The doctrine of projects applyed to gunnery by those late famous authors Galilæus and Torricellio now rendred into English ; together with some excellent observations out of Mersennus and other famous authors. (London : Printed for Rob. Pawlet, Tho. Passinger, and Benj. Hurlock, 1672) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Certain additions to the booke of gunnery, with a supply of fire-workes all done by the former author Thomas Smith ... ; both pleasant and profitable. (London : Printed by H.L. and are to be sold by R. Dawlman, in Fleet-street neere the great Conduit, 1627), by Thomas Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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. (London : Printed by E. Cotes for G. Hurlock, W. Fisher, E. Thomas, and D. Page ..., 1669), by Samuel Sturmy (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Treatise of Artillery (with an introductory theory of powder applied to firearms; second edition; London: Printed for J. Millan, 1768), by John Muller (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on gun-powder; a treatise on fire-arms; and a treatise on the service of artillery in time of war: (Sold by T. and J. Egerton, 1789), by Alessandro Vittorio Papacino d'Antoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wallenstein's kroatische Arkebusiere, 1623-1626. Aus unbenützten, archivalischen Quellen. (F. Kilián, 1884), by Aladár Ballagi and Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'artillerie raisonnés, contenant la description & l'usage des différentes bouches à feu, avec les principaux moyens qu'on a employés pour les perfectionner, la théorie & la pratique des mines, & du jet des bombes, et l'essentiel de tout ce que l'artillerie a de plus intéressant depuis l'invention de la poudre à canon (Chez C.A. Jombert, 1761), by Guillaume Le Blond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lehrbuch der artilleriewissenschaft. Aus dem spanischen des d. Thomas de Morla ... (J.A. Barth, 1795), by Tomás de Morla and J. G. v. Hoyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great art of artillery of Casimir Simienowicz ... (J. Tonson, 1729), by Kazimierz Siemienowicz and George Shelvocke (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'usage de l'artillerie nouvelle dans la guerre de campagne (C. Lavauzelle, 1924), by Jean Du Teil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instruction theóretique et pratique d'artilleŕie : a l'usage des eĺev̀es de l'ećole militaire de Saint-Cyr (Librairie Militaire de J. Dumaine, 1849), by M. Thiroux (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Complete treatise of mines : extracted from the Memoires d'artillerie : to which is prefixed, by way of introduction, Professor Belidor's Dissertation on the force and physical effects of gunpowder ... (Printed for A. Millar ... , 1756), by M. Belidor, Pierre Surirey de Saint-Rémy, and Henry Manningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur l'usage de l'altillerie, dans la guerre de campagne & dans celle de sieges (Arckstée & Merkus, 1771), by Dupuget (page images at HathiTrust)
• Avertimenti et essamini intorno a quelle cose che richiede a vn bombardiero : cosi circa all'artegliaria, come anco a fuochi arteficiati (Appresso Thomaso Bozzola, 1567), by Girolamo Cataneo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pratica manuale di arteglieria (Presso Pietro Dusinelli, 1586), by Luis Collado (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modelles, artifices de feu, et divers instruments de guerre (Chez Quentin Mareschal ..., 1598), by Joseph Boillot (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'artiglieria di Pietro Sardi, Romano, diuisa in tre libri ... (Stampata in Venetia appresso Giouanni Guerrigli a spese dell' autore, 1621), by Pietro Sardi (page images at HathiTrust)
• La pyrotechnie de Hanzelet lorrain, ou sont representez les plus rares & plus appreuuez secrets des machines & des feux artificiels, propres pour assieger, battre, surprende & deffendre toutes places. (Par I. & Gaspard Bernard, 1630), by Jean Appier-Hanzelet (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de jetter les bombes (Chez l'autheur au Faux-bourg S. Germain ... et Nicolas Langlois rue S. Jacques à la Victoire, 1683), by François Blondel, François Le Cointe, Nicolas Langlois, and Jean-Baptiste Broebes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pratiqve de la gverre : contenant l'vsage de l'artillerie (Chez Geruais Clousier ..., 1650), by Francis Malthus, Gervais Clousier, Jacques Picard, and Jacques Picart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lust-Lufft- und FeuerKunst (In Verlegung Matthias Schultes, 1680), by Wolfgang August Mayer, Mattheus Schultes, and Marx Eisenkrämer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fortification demonstree et redvicte en art ([s.n.], 1620), by J. Errard and Isaac Briot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beschryvinge van de artillerye : leerende in 't korte alle 't geene dat tot de beginselen en fondamenten van nooden is ... in ordre gestelt en met figuren versien, en seer klaer en kort beschreven voor alle lief-hebbers (By Gerrit Rammazeyn ..., 1681), by T. N. Brinck, Gerrit Rammazeyn, and G. Wingendorp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de l'artillerie : qui enseigne tout ce qui concerne les poudres, les cannons, mortiers & pierriers, les batteries, les mines, les artifices, les armes de toute espèce, les ouvrages, attirails & outils nécessaires au service de l'artillerie, o qui y ont rapport : tant sur mer, que sur terre, et les fonctions et devoirs des officers de ce corps (Chez Jean Van Duren, 1741), by P. P. A. Bardet de Villeneuve and Jean van Duren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato dell' artiglieria di Tomaso Moretti (Per Gio. Battista Gromi, 1672), by Tomaso Moretti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Avvertimenti, et essamini intorno a quelle cose, che richiedono a un perfetto bombardiero (Presso Altobello Salicato, 1580), by Girolamo Cataneo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prattica manvale dell'artiglieria : doue si tratta dell'eccellenza (Per Girolamo Bordoni, e Pietromartire Locarni, 1606), by Luis Collado (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perfeto bombardiero et real instrvttione di artiglieri (Appresso Alessandro de' Vechi, 1626), by Eugenio Gentilini and Zaccaria Schiavina (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recveil de plusieurs machines militaires et feux artificiels pour la guerre & recreation (Par Charles Marchant, imprimeur ..., 1620), by François Thybourel, Johannes Trithemius, and Jean Appier-Hanzelet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Büchsenmaister Discurs, eine neuerfundene Kugel Taffel (Gedruckt von Christoff Tschorn, 1662), by Georg Schreiber and Christoph Tschorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corona e palma militare di artiglieria et fortificationi : nellaquale si tratta dell'inuentione di essa, e dell'operare nelle fattioni da terra e mare, fuochi artificiati da giuoco e guerra, & d'vn nuouo instrumento per misurare distanze : con vn trattato della fortificatione moderna, e delli errori scoperti nelle fortezze antiche : tutto à proposito per detto essercitio dell'artiglieria, con dissegni apparenti & intelligibili (Presso Antonio Bariletti, 1647), by Alessandro Capo Bianco, Antonio Bariletti, and Ezechiel Durante (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oeuvres diverses de M. Belidor, concernant l'artillerie et le geńie : [augmenteé de la vie de l'auteur]. (Chez Arksteé & Mekus, 1764), by M. Belidor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il capo de' bombardieri essaminato, & approuato dal generale dell' artiglieria. Opera nuoua, vtile, e necessarissima à tutti que' che si vogliono essercitare, e far professions di arte tanto honorata di bombardiero, per seruitio del suo principe. (Appresso I. Givnti, 1641), by Pietro Sardi (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (London : Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonby, 1600 [-1601]), by Thomas Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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 ... (London : Printed by John Darby for the author, and are to be sold by Andrew Forrester ..., 1676), by Thomas Binning (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The arte of shooting in great ordnaunce Contayning very necessary matters for all sortes of seruitoures eyther by sea or by lande. Written by William Bourne. (Imprinted at London : [By Thomas Dawson] for Thomas Woodcocke, 1587), by William Bourne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Trattato dell' artiglieria. English. 1683 (London : Printed by A.G. and J.P. for Obadiah Blagrave ..., 1683), by Tomaso Moretti, Jonas Moore, Abraham Dager, and Georges Fournier (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Explanation of the most excellent and necessary definitions, and questions, pronounced and propounded, by that rare souldier and mathematician, Thomas Digges Esquire. (London : Printed by Edw. Allde, for Iohn Tap, and are to bee sold at his shop, at the corner of Saint Magnus Church, 1624), by Robert Norton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Certain additions to the booke of gunnery, with a supply of fire-workes all done by the former author Thomas Smith ... ; both pleasant and profitable. (London : Printed by H.L. and are to be sold by R. Dawlman, in Fleet-street neere the great Conduit, 1627), by Thomas Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Certaine vvayes for the ordering of souldiours in battelray, and setting of battayles, after diuers fashions with their manner of marching: and also fugures [sic] of certayne newe plattes for fortification of townes: and moreover, howe to make saltpeter, gunpouder and diuers sortes of fireworkes or wilde fyre, with other thinges appertayning to the warres. / Gathered & set foorth by Peter Whitehorne. (Imprinted at London, : by VV. VVilliamson: for Ihon VVight., Anno. 1573), by Peter Whithorne (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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