• 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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    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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  • after observing tennis players in his Cambridge college. In 1742, Benjamin Robins, a British mathematician, ballistics researcher, and military engineer...
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  • Robins may refer to: Robins, Iowa, a small city Robins, Ohio, an unincorporated community Robins Township, Fall River County, South Dakota Robins Island...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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