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Paper, 'A proposition of Generall Use in the art of Gunnery showing the Rule of Laying a Mortar to pass in order to strike any Object above or below the Horizon' by Edmond Halley

Reference number: CLP/21/29

Date: 1695

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Subject: Warfare, Engineering

Reference number
CLP/21/29
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1695
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Edmond Halley

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Edmond Halley, Paper, 'A proposition of Generall Use in the art of Gunnery showing the Rule of Laying a Mortar to pass in order to strike any Object above or below the Horizon' by Edmond Halley, 1695, CLP/21/29, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_21_29/paper-a-proposition-of-generall-use-in-the-art-of-gunnery-showing-the-rule-of-laying-a-mortar-to-pass-in-order-to-strike-any-object-above-or-below-the-horizon-by-edmond-halley, accessed on 25 March 2025

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