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Benjamin Robins (1707 – 29 July 1751) was a pioneering British scientist, Newtonian mathematician, and military engineer.

He wrote an influential treatise on gunnery, for the first time introducing Newtonian science to military men, was an early enthusiast for rifled gun barrels, and his work had substantive influence on the development of artillery during the latter half of the eighteenth century – and directly stimulated the teaching of calculus in military academies.

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Benjamin Robins

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Benjamin Robins (1707 – 29 July 1751) was a pioneering British scientist, Newtonian mathematician, and military engineer. He wrote an influential treatise...

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Ballistic pendulum

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The ballistic pendulum was invented in 1742 by English mathematician Benjamin Robins (1707–1751), and published in his book New Principles of Gunnery, which...

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Robins Island is a 435-acre (1.76 km2) island in Peconic Bay by the eastern end of Long Island off the coast of New Suffolk, New York. The island is privately...

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2021. Retrieved June 13, 2018. Leach, Richard H. (December 1952). "Benjamin Robins Curtis, Judicial Misfit". The New England Quarterly. Vol. 25, no. 4...

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Centrifuge

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enrich nuclear fuel for fissile isotopes. English military engineer Benjamin Robins (1707–1751) invented a whirling arm apparatus to determine drag. In...

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scientific basis in the mid-18th century. British military engineer Benjamin Robins used Newtonian mechanics to calculate the projectile trajectory while...

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maker and rocket pioneer Benjamin Robins, 17th-century English artillery scientist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Robins Leonhard Euler, 18th-century...

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Contributions of Leonhard Euler to mathematics

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&c. or New Principles of Artillery, translated from the English of Benjamin Robins, with notes and illustrations (Berlin, 1745, in octavo) Opuscula varii...

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and incomplete. However, subsequent work on ballistic pendulums by Benjamin Robins (1707–1751), a British mathematician and engineer, suggests that he...

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as e.g. Froude number. English military engineer and mathematician Benjamin Robins (1707–1751) invented a whirling arm apparatus to determine drag and...

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Brown Bess

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Musket Rifle American Land Pattern Musket Swedish Land Pattern Musket Benjamin Robins, New Principles of Gunnery: Containing the Determination of the Force...

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The ballistic pendulum was invented in 1742 by English mathematician Benjamin Robins, and published in his book New Principles of Gunnery, which revolutionized...

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Rifle

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in the accuracy of smoothbore muskets. In the early 18th century, Benjamin Robins, an English mathematician, realized that an elongated bullet would...

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Emily Robins

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Emily Iris Robins (born 21 May 1989) is a New Zealand actress and singer. She was born to Danny Robins and Susan Robins. She is known for her role in the...

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Gun chronograph

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non-lethal projectiles fired from items such as a paintball gun or BB gun. Benjamin Robins (1707–1751) invented the ballistic pendulum that measures the momentum...

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Timeline of the gunpowder age

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cased rockets known as Mysorean rockets. Vertical cannon drilling Benjamin Robins describes the ballistic pendulum in the New Principles of Gunnery Flier...

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Ballistic coefficient

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1742, Benjamin Robins invented the ballistic pendulum. This was a simple mechanical device that could measure a projectile's velocity. Robins reported...

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1742 in science

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in children in London, the first treatise in English on dentition. Benjamin Robins publishes his New Principles of Gunnery, containing the determination...

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Kinver

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Whittington Inn, and the infamous William Howe, a footpad who murdered Benjamin Robins of Dunsley Hall and became the penultimate person to be gibbeted at...

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History of physics

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discovered his uniformly rotating self-gravitating spheroids. In 1742, Benjamin Robins published his New Principles in Gunnery, establishing the science of...

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John Call

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17 with Benjamin Robins, the chief engineer and captain-general of artillery in the East India Company's settlements. After the death of Robins, Call became...

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Gribeauval system

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called it "arguably the best artillery system in Europe at that time". Benjamin Robins put artillery on a scientific basis in 1742. Bronze, an alloy of 10...

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Craig Robins

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father remarried to Joan Benjamin who had two children from a previous marriage: Scott (born 1963) and Stacy (born 1965). Robins was greatly influenced...

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Fort Haldane

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ballistics. Haldane was friends with noted English scientist Benjamin Robins, and he enlisted Robins to help with the gunnery placements for the fort. Robin's...

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