Robert Norton, Of the Art of Great Artillery (1624)
Date
1624
Author
Book title
Of the art of great artillery, viz. The explanation of the most excellent and necessary definitions, and questions, pronounced and propounded, by that rare souldier and mathematician, Thomas Digges Esquire and by him published, in his Stratiaticos, and Pantometria, concerning great ordinance, and his theorems thereupon. Together, with certaine expositions, and answers thereunto adioyned: written by Robert Norton gunner
Publication place
London
Printer
Edward Allde
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
war
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Mr. Digges. FOR as much as by the hollow Cylinder or Trunke of the Peece, the violence of all shotte of Great Artillerie is not onely directed, but also increased, I call that hollow Cylinder of the Peece, her Soule. Mr. Norton. This Soule is vsually termed by the most experienced Gunners, the Concaue Cylinder, or Bore of the Peece: And when she is loaded, so much thereof as containeth her Charge, is called her Chamber, or Charged Cylinder, whether she be Equally Bored, or Camber Bored; and the rest that is vnfilled, is cal|led the vacant Cylinder of her Bore.
sample: Mr. Digges. FOR as much as by the hollow Cylinder or Trunke of the Peece, the violence of all shotte of Great Artillerie is not onely directed, but also increased, I call that hollow Cylinder of the Peece, her Soule. Mr. Norton. This Soule is vsually termed by the most experienced Gunners, the Concaue Cylinder, or Bore of the Peece: And when she is loaded, so much thereof as containeth her Charge, is called her Chamber, or Charged Cylinder, whether she be Equally Bored, or Camber Bored; and the rest that is vnfilled, is cal|led the vacant Cylinder of her Bore.
STC
18676
