Siemienowicz Casimir. Grand Art D'Artillerie

Mise en français par Pierre Noiset. — Amsterodami: Apud Ioannem Ianssonium, MDCLI (1651). — 420 p.Kazimierz Siemienowicz (Latin: Casimirus Siemienowicz, Lithuanian: Kazimieras Simonavičius, Polish: Kazimierz Siemienowicz, born c. 1600 – c. 1651), was a Polish–Lithuanian general of artillery, gunsmith, military engineer, and pioneer of rocketry. Born in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, he served the armies of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, a ruler of the Netherlands. No portrait or detailed biography of him has survived and much of his life is a subject of dispute.
After contributing his expertise to several battles, Siemienowicz published Artis Magnae Artilleriae in 1650. This treatise, which discussed rocketry and pyrotechnics, remained a standard work in those fields for two centuries.Kazimir Semenovich (c. 1600 - c. 1651) - military engineer in the army of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, artillery theorist. Author of the book “The Great Mastery of Artillery,” published in 1650.