Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1: Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age
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Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1: Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age
Natural history; Science -- Early works to 1800; Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800
These _Propositions_ considered, there is no question relating to
_Projects_, which, by the help of them, may not easily be Solved; and
tho' it be true that most of them are to be met withal, in _Galileus_,
_Torricellius_ and others, who have taken them from those Authors, yet
their Books being Foreign, and not easy to come by, and their
_Demonstrations_ long and difficult, I thought it not amiss to give the
whole _Doctrine_ here in _English_, with such short _Analytical_ Proof
of my own, as might be sufficient to evince their Truth.
The Tenth _Proposition_ contains a _Problem_, untouch'd by _Torricellius_,
which is of the greatest use in _Gunnery_, and for the sake of which
this _Discourse_ was principally intended: It was first Solved by Mr.
_Anderson_, in his Book of the Genuine Use and Effects of the _Gun_,
Printed in the Year 1674; but his Solution required so much Calculation,
that it put me upon search, whether it might not be done more easily,
and thereupon in the Year 1678 I found out the Rule I now Publish, and
from it the _Geometrical_ Construction: Since which time there has a
large _Treatise_ of this Subject, Intituled, _L'Art dejetter les
Bombes_, been Published by _Monsieur Blondel_, wherein he gives the
Solutions of this _Problem_ by _Messieurs Buot_, _Romer_ and _de la
Hire_: But none of them being the same with Mine, or, in my Opinion,
more easy, and most of them more Operose, and besides mine finding the
_Tangent_, which generally determines the _Angle_ better than its
_Sine_, I thought my self obliged to Print it for the use of all such,
as desire to be informed in the _Mathematical_ part of the Art of
_Gunnery_.
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