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  Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Kazimierz Siemienowicz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Kazimierz Siemienowicz (Belarusian: Казімер Семяновіч, Kazimir Siemianovič, Lithuanian: Kazimieras Simonavičius) (born c.
Siemienowicz considered the use of poison gases unhonorable.
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Kazimierz Siemienowicz; all previous versions may be viewed here.
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 NewPoland - Famous Poles: Scientists
Bartel, Kazimierz (1882-1941), scholar and statesman, expert in analytical geometry and professor at Lvov Polytechnic, Prime Minister of Poland, and also a Minister of Education.
Fajans, Kazimierz (1887-1975), physico-chemist, professor at the University of Michigan, pioneer of radiochemistry.
Siemienowicz, Kazimierz, 17-century deputy of the Polish Royal Artillery; may be considered a precursor of space flight.
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 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Multi-stage rocket, from Kazimierz Siemienowicz's Artis Magnæ Artilleriæ pars prima
The Commonwealth's Commission for National Education (Polish Komisja Edukacji Narodowej), formed in 1773, was the world's first national ministry of education.
Kazimierz Siemienowicz (1600–1651), military engineer, artillery specialist and one of the founders of rocketry,
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 Kazimierz Siemienowicz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The great art of artillery of Casimir Siemienowicz...
Kazimirz Siemienowicz, Lithuanian-born Lieutenant General of Ordnance in Service to the King of Poland, originally intended to write a two-part "Compleat Art of Artillery" but only the first part was finished before his death.
The five sections of the Latin first edition deal with caliber, pyrotechnics, rockets, fire-balls and the building of firework set-pieces.
www.brown.edu /Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/Fireworks/4.html   (314 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
From the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries, man came up with new ideas of how rockets would fly.
In 1650, a polish expert Kazimierz Siemienowicz published drawings of a staged rocket.
The English were the first to use rockets, using them in the War of 1812 against Americans.
webpages.csus.edu /~sac57805/Rocket.doc   (198 words)

  
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Kazimierz Siemienowicz in his handbook on artillery (1650) presented the world's first treatise on rocketry, including multi-stage rockets.
Another Polish-American, Kazimierz Funk is known as the Father of Vitamin, and the Father of the American "H" Bomb is Stanislaw Ulam.
The "moon rover" was designed by Mieczyslaw Bekker and the first Polio vaccine was discovered by Hilary Koprowski, both Polish-Americans.
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 History of Rocketry: Ancient times to the 17th Century
Nathaneal Lye published "The Art Of Gunnery" in 1647, which contained detailed instructions on the construction, handling and operation of a variety of pyrotechnic and military rockets.
Several types of military rockets are also described in "Artis Magnae Artilleriae" (Great Art Of Artillery), published by Kazimierz Siemienowicz in 1650.
German field artillery colonel Christoph Friedrich is reported to have begun experimenting with war rockets weighing 55 to 120 pounds as early as 1668.
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 List of szlachta: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Kazimierz Siemienowicz (Kazimierz Siemienowicz: kazimierz siemienowicz (born c.1600 - c.1651) was a polish-lithuanian commonwealth...
Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł (Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł: more facts about this subject), 1625-1680, hetman, chancellor
Michal Kazimierz Rybenko Radziwill (Michal Kazimierz Rybenko Radziwill: more facts about this subject), 1702-176, hetman, castellan,
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/list_of_szlachta   (1657 words)

  
 MSFC-00862 - Drawing of a Staged Rocket by a Polish artillery expert in 1650   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Drawing of a Staged Rocket by a Polish artillery expert in 1650
In 1650, a Polish artillery expert, Kazimierz Siemienowicz, published a series of drawings for a staged rocket.
Polish artillery expert, Kazimierz Siemienowicz, staged rocket, drawing
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 Vilnius University: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
bishop Walerian Protasewicz and marshal of the crown Kazimierz Lew Sapieha.
Kazimierz Moszyński, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
Kazimierz Siemienowicz (Kazimierz siemienowicz (born c.1600 - c.1651) was a polish-lithuanian commonwealth nobleman (szlachcic),...)
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 AIM25: University College London: Siemienowicz Manuscript
His book was translated from the Latin into German in 1676 and into English (as The Great Art of Artillery) in 1729.
Scope and content/abstract: Manuscript volume, 17th century: Casimire Siemienowicz's 'Geometriae Practicae Synopsis et architecturae militans, quam vulgo fortificationem vocant, elementa' (on practical geometry and military fortifications), with many diagrams, some coloured, several full-page, and one fold-out.
Finding aids: Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); handlist at University College London Special Collections.
www.aim25.ac.uk /cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=3482&inst_id=13   (223 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Later around 1400 AD Joanes de Fontana of Italy used a gunpowder rocket as propulsion for a surface torpedo.
In 1650 Poland’s Kazimierz Siemienowicz designed the first “multi-stage” rocket.
Of course in the mid-1700’s Francis Scott Key, a songwriter, penned the famous like “and the rocket’s red glare” as a description of the American Revolutionary War with Britain.
www.issues-mag.com /jan5/rocket.phtml   (1821 words)

  
 ArcaVir minicontest - Questions - Page 2 - Wilders Security Forums
Polish nobleman (coat-of-arms "Ostoja") from a family settled in Grand Duchy of Lithuania, military engineer and artillery specialist under Kings Wladyslaw IV [PL only] and Jan II Kazimierz [PL only] of Poland.
Educated in part in the Netherlands, where he was sent by the King Wladyslaw IV to serve in the army of Duke Frederick-Henry of Oran during the war with Spain.
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