Samuel Dodson

Benjamin Robins's New Principles of Gunnery and the Response From the British Mathematical, Educational, and Military World of the Mid‐Eighteenth Century

Abstract This article analyses to what degree Benjamin Robins's discoveries in his book New Principles of Gunnery , 1742, affected the British mathematical, military, and educational world of the mid‐eighteenth century. While it drew praise and critique from Europe, especially fr...