TO THE MOST SERENE AND MOST POWERFUL

PRINCE

LORD: LORD

LEOPOLD

WILLIAM

ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA

DUKE OF BURGUNDY, etc.

BISHOP OF STRASBOURG,

PASSAU, OLOMOUC.

GRAND MASTER OF THE

TEUTONIC ORDER OF ST. MARY, etc.

OF THE CATHOLIC KING

IN BELGIUM AND BURGUNDY

VICAR.

OF THE GREATEST EMPERORS ON EARTH

OF GREAT LINEAGE:

BY THE SPLENDID DEEDS OF HIS ANCESTORS AND HIMSELF

Among the Princes of Europe

EMINENT:

A GERMAN HERCULES AND MARS:

AMIDST THE CLAMOR OF ARMS AND THE

THUNDEROUS ROARS OF WAR MACHINES,

FEARLESS

HERO:

PATRON OF THE LIBERAL ARTS:

BRAVE, PIOUS, FORTUNATE, MERCIFUL, VICTORIOUS,

TRIUMPHANT.

Having expressed the wish for all the prosperity that the human condition can either hope for or contain,

H E

THE GREAT ART

OF ARTILLERY

PART

TO THE EYES OF THE GREAT PRINCE

A WORK NOT UNWORTHY

He humbly dedicates and offers: and prays that His Highness may deign to look upon this labor with the same expression with which he is accustomed to receive all honest endeavors, and that he may deign to take it under his protection, so that under the shield of such a great Name, he may more easily repel and despise the darts of the malevolent.

Most humbly prays

THE MOST AUGUST PRINCE

Most devoted.

CASIMIR SIEMIENOWICZ

Lithuanian Knight

formerly

Lieutenant-General of the Artillery of the Kingdom of Poland.