"About Weapons of the AWI" Topic
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Tango01 | 13 Oct 2018 12:23 p.m. PST |
"By the late 18th century, artillerymen were considered elite troops. In an age of widespread illiteracy, soldiers who could do the geometric calculations necessary to place a cannonball on target must have seemed almost as wizards. Indeed, even though for centuries it was known that the flight path of spears and arrows was parabolic, the fellow who demonstrated it mathematically, Galileo, came close to being burned by the Inquisition for his heretical ideas. But mathematical calculations were only a part of the science of artillery, which is worth a web page all to itself, so let's begin…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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FlyXwire | 13 Oct 2018 4:58 p.m. PST |
Nice article Armand – printing it out now! :) |
Tango01 | 14 Oct 2018 3:05 p.m. PST |
Happy for you my friend!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
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