Author: Siemienowicz Casimir, 1600 - 1651
Title: Große Artilleriekunst.
Title in English: The Great Art of Artillery.
Published: Franfurt am Main, 1676.
Binding: contemporary vellum binding.
Work that presents the accumulated knowledge of the author's contemporaries on design and construction of rockets, fireballs, and other pyrotechnic devices, as well as his pioneering ideas on applying a reactive technique to artillery.
Reference: Brunet V, 377. Berlin Katalog 3298. Lipperheide 2082. Jaehns II, 1196-1198.
Casimir Siemienowicz’s The Great Art of Artillery was translated into German by Thomas Leonhard Beeren, and published with a second part by Daniel Elrich.
Reference: "The Collection of Lawyer Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books". Museum and Collector - 7. Vilnius: National Museum of Lithuania, 2018, p. 293.
Published: "The Collection of Lawyer Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books". Museum and Collector - 7. Vilnius: National Museum of Lithuania, 2018, p. 292-295.
Exhibitions: "The Collection of Lawyer
Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books", September 3, 2018 – October
21, 2018.