Papers, regarding a rule of gunnery by [Edmond Halley?] Edmond Halley's diagram for illustrating a rule of gunnery, shown to William Molyneux when they met in London. This was given to George Tollet (d. 1714) by Molyneux's father, Captain Samuel Molyneux. Tollet was a self-taught teacher of mathematics in Dublin and one of the earliest members of the Dublin Philosophical Society. Tollet wrote to Charles Willoughby on 4 July 1685 and mentioned that he had worked out a general rule using a different construction. This was read to the Dublin Philosophical Society on 6 July 1685, and then sent by St George Ashe to Francis Aston in a letter dated 4 July 1685. It was read to the Royal Society at its meeting on 22 July 1685. (See Papers of the Dublin Philosophical Society, ed. by K. Theodore Hoppen, 2 vols (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2008), I, 458n). Includes diagrams within text. Subject: Geometry / Physics [1685]