[Rarebooks] For Sale: Bashforth's 'Motion of Projectiles'

[Norman Kane]

BASHFORTH, FRANCIS.   A MATHEMATICAL TREATISE ON THE MOTION OF 
PROJECTILES, FOUNDED CHIEFLY ON THE RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS MADE WITH 
THE AUTHOR'S CHRONOGRAPH.   London: Asher & Co.; Berlin, 
1873.  [BOUND WITH, AS ISSUED:]  SUPPLEMENT .  .  .  London: Asher & 
Co.; Berlin, 1881.  Octavo, original cloth, sides blindstamped, spine 
lettered in gilt, excellent copy.  Old eroded label at corner of end 
paper, partly covered with a later Parisian bookseller's 
label.  Frontispiece and 2 plates.  Xxii, 90,112; [2], [91]-132, 80 
pages.  Ballistician Bashforth, 1819-1912, Prof. of Applied Math at 
Woolwich, conducted & reported on a series of important ballistic 
experiments 1864-80 & invented the chronograph (pictured in the
frontispiece) used to determine the air-resistance to projectiles  (see DNB).
$390.00 
(Trade Discount, 10%)


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