A discourse on the theory of gunnery. : Delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Royal society, November 30, 1778. / By Sir John Pringle, baronet. Published by their order.

  • John Pringle
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1778
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Credit: A discourse on the theory of gunnery. : Delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Royal society, November 30, 1778. / By Sir John Pringle, baronet. Published by their order. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ffjm 5 r17 ]. had done its part, fo to J'peak,, regard to praSIice. See., ^ ‘ x » ■ I But far be it from our intention to relate the imper¬ fections of others, in order to raife ourfelves by the com- i parifon. Candour requires of us not only to acknow¬ ledge, that in this country, as to the point in queftion, we did not furpafs our neighbours; but ingenuoufly to own that, on the contrary, we were perhaps more liable to exception. For, fome years before Blondel’s work appeared1^, a treatife was publifhed by one of our own artillerifts, Anderson (a perfon of eminence in his profeffion) intituled The genuine ufe and effeiis of the gun, in which the author ftrenuoufly fupports the Galilean theory; nor do we learn he was ever contra- dialed among us,, although he undertook to anfwer all thofe who fhould make objections to it. Nay, when *• he had an opportunity afterwards of making experi¬ ments on the ranges of bombs, and by thofe trials was allured that their flight was not in a parabola; yet fp * far was he from aferibing the deviation from that figure to the refiftance of the air, that he had recourfe .to an (l) Hill, de l’Acad. R. des Sc. A. 1707, under the article Mechanique. (m) Viz, in 1674.., c hypothef%