Category: History - Warfare

A discourse on the theory of gunnery Delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society, November 30, 1778

Pringle, John, Sir, 1707-1782· 2 chapters· 6,342 words

Among the several experiments communicated to the society, during the course of the preceding year, none seeming so much to engage your attention, as those contained in the Paper, intituled, _The force of fired gun-powder, and the initial velocity of cannon-balls, determined b...

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1. Part 1

Among the several experiments communicated to the society, during the course of the preceding year, none seeming so much to engage your attention, as those contained in the Pape...

2. Part 2

Thus, after the theory of gunnery had exercised the genius of the learned for nearly two hundred years, and for almost fourscore of that time had rested on fundamentals which ha...