Harai7 foot, which haviogi^ or fuch a 'proportion to aJI 
thti Feet may be ufed tafeitlea cooftant and certain meafure 
every where, and to recover it 10 all ages j Borafmuch as Time 
will be always and in all places the fame, and confequently 
Inch a length being taken as exadly equals a fecoadof Time^ 
a |uft Uoiverfal Meafure is obtained. 
M: mOEkN FORTlFICAtlON, &C B^ Sir Jofla^ Moor Jkfaifer 
furveyer af his Majefiies Ordnance. Loodoo ifijg^ in 8"*, 
THE Worthy and Intelligent Author of this Book pom* 
prchendsin a foall volume whatever hath been dcfig- 
ned and pradiftd by the tateft and moft Experienced logi-* 
neers of this Age, Italian^ French^ Dut^hznd Englilh ^ and the 
manner of Defeticiing and Befieging FORTs and other Pl4- 
€ES i together with the life of a Jo/nt-gMkr or ^eStor for the 
%ccdy defcription of any Fortification. AM which he doth by 
foch eafy Rules,as if he had calculated this his Treanfc for the 
meaoeft Capacitfeso , 
He divides the Book into 8: CJhapters. 
The contains certain Propofitions ncceflfary to be 
kQOwn bcforc-haud, borrowed firom. Geometry 3 as aHb hi$ 
way of taking the Plat of any Towa or Flace^ toMiher wilh/ 
his great care io reconciling the di:fiEereDces of Aft^gj;\Qf 
veralGountriesjfbund in theTables oiSndl^Ji^gen^M^it^ 
N/^"m/»#bScc i and particularly in com^paring^t 
with the famous Meafures of other Places | mentioning with- 
al M^i^rtf^'sUuiverfal Footjor a TrndHhim ihu mil viferatc 13 2 1 
i(mes|n a mijiute of Time. 
The Second treats of thfc moft ?4oder«? liartifijda tions of 
g^^iffir Figures ^where the Author^ difcourfic^ of CQWPr jP^4irii v 
waysWhercin thef ftands at right Angtei with the Liae^: 
of i^ef^^, take3 noticetjthat thi$ way hath tieeo p^ pi|]yap* 
proved, but much facilitated by his Ma jcfty c?£ Qr^ Brkm y, 
CHARLES \h , . , 
l^i^ikird it2^ the Ufes of . tjie ^(^^f-rnler^^^g which; j 
thofc are vetydjofiderable oo^s, thatt It coms^m not wly a ^ 
Table (hewing^ wb^t weight of Ppi^dci is alJowird foi; ^m§\ 
