New Principles of Gunnery: Containing the Determination of the Force of Gunpowder, and an Investigation of the Difference in the Resisting Power of ... on the Improvement of Practical Gunnery - Hardcover

Robins, Benjamin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 026557661X ISBN 13: 9780265576618

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from New Principles of Gunnery: Containing the Determination of the Force of Gunpowder, and an Investigation of the Difference in the Resisting Power of the Air to Swift and Slow Motions, With Several Other Tracts on the Improvement of Practical Gunnery

Mr. Robins's way of infirutting'was' general y'fimi lar to the couryie he had followed him/elf, but as he only taught per/ons/ingly, qnd not in clafl'es, it was in his power to vary his method according to the capacity or intention of each learner. However, he always gun with the Elements of Euclide, not as interpolated 'by Campanus and Clavius, or anatomflhd by Herigonc and Barrow, or depraved by Tacquet and Dcchallcs but according to the original, handed down to us by ou tiquity much le/s did he ufe any of the new modelled Elements; that at prg/ent every where abound.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 026557661X
• ISBN 13: 9780265576618
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 396
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