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A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive, Vol. 1: Containing the Theory of Statics, Dynamics, Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, and Pneumatics
Excerpt from A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive, Vol. 1: Containing the Theory of Statics, Dynamics, Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, and Pneumatics
It may, probably, be imagined by some, that considering the advantages for that purpose, with which my situation at Woolwich furnishes me, I should insert descriptions of the various kinds of machinery used in the artillery service. This, however, I have not done: chie y because such descriptions, by Muller and other re spectable authors, are already easily procured in works appropriated exclusively to that important object, and where the accounts are given with far greater copiousness than they could be in a perform ance where so many other objects are handled.
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It may, probably, be imagined by some, that considering the advantages for that purpose, with which my situation at Woolwich furnishes me, I should insert descriptions of the various kinds of machinery used in the artillery service. This, however, I have not done: chie y because such descriptions, by Muller and other re spectable authors, are already easily procured in works appropriated exclusively to that important object, and where the accounts are given with far greater copiousness than they could be in a perform ance where so many other objects are handled.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
595 pages, Paperback
Published August 24, 2018
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Olinthus Gregory
211 booksOlinthus Gilbert Gregory (29 January 1774 – 2 February 1841) was an English mathematician, author and editor.
He was born on 29 January 1774 at Yaxley in Huntingdonshire. Having been educated by Richard Weston, a Leicester botanist, in 1793 he published a treatise, Lessons Astronomical and Philosophical. Having settled at Cambridge in 1796, Gregory first acted as sub-editor on the Cambridge Intelligencer, and then opened a booksellers shop. In 1802 he obtained an appointment as mathematical master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich through the influence of Charles Hutton, to whose notice he had been brought by a manuscript on the Use of the Sliding Rule; and when Hutton resigned in 1807 Gregory succeeded him in the professorship. Failing health obliged him to retire in 1838, and he died at Woolwich on 2 February 1841.
He was born on 29 January 1774 at Yaxley in Huntingdonshire. Having been educated by Richard Weston, a Leicester botanist, in 1793 he published a treatise, Lessons Astronomical and Philosophical. Having settled at Cambridge in 1796, Gregory first acted as sub-editor on the Cambridge Intelligencer, and then opened a booksellers shop. In 1802 he obtained an appointment as mathematical master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich through the influence of Charles Hutton, to whose notice he had been brought by a manuscript on the Use of the Sliding Rule; and when Hutton resigned in 1807 Gregory succeeded him in the professorship. Failing health obliged him to retire in 1838, and he died at Woolwich on 2 February 1841.
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