| Description | Papin states that previously he had given a computation of the swiftness of a bullet driven by the whole pressure of the atmosphere without explaining the calculation - wishes to rectify this
Presents the problem - 'The length and Bore of a Barrell being given, and the weight of a Bullet fitted to it; to find out, what velocity must be acquired by the sayd Bullet being driven through the sayd Barrill by the whole pressure of the Atmosphere'
Gives hypothesis, two propositions and three corollaries
Figure in margin, in ink, page 17
Read to the Royal Society on 27 July 1687 |