364 STRATIOTIcos.The third Errour.

hat if qou charge auß one pecce with ſeuerall quantitie oftene leude ef pouder, the peece being diſcharged iwo ſeueralitymes at one Nandon aud with ths ſume bullet, all malęleren Ranges proportional to the maighit or quantities ofthe pouder. 1 8 a

a 8 e Poſition is maintained by an Italian that taketh

vpõ him to be a great Malter in this Art e vpon thisPoſition he teacheth Arithmetically by the Rule of Pro-portion to finde out the different grazes ot the bullets, bulàs Palingemus laith.

Friuola ſi fuerimt fundamina, tempore paruoDefcet quicquil ſuper his fubricare volemus.

And lo his Rules being all as kriuolous as his Poſiti-

ons, J hold it but loſt labour to make repetition of them,oꝛ otherwile to ſpend woꝛdes about them, but onelp toadmonich the ingenious pꝛactitioner that affecketh perfe-ction in this Science, not to loſe his time in reading anyok thole bokes oꝛ diſcourſes that are foũded on thele falſepꝛinciples and grounds erronious.

The fourth Errour.

The fourth and chieffof all the rect is, in the grade of vn.moſt Randon for moſt writers that euer I read agree inthis, that the mount of A grades abous the Horizontallplayns ſpould male there the vtmoſt range.

Othis Errour, as I take it, thev are induced rather by

Ia ſuperitciall conũderation and Coniecure, then be

anꝑ lound triall oꝛ demonſtration:łoꝛ ſeing that by 1

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