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Achillini, Alessandro

Agricola, Georgius

Alberti, Leone Battista

Archimedes

Aristotle

Babington, John

Baif, Lazare de

Baldi, Bernardino

Baliani, Giovanni Battista

Barocius, Franciscus

Benedetti, Giovanni Battista

Berga, Antonio

Biancani, Giuseppe

Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso

Borro, Girolamo

Boyle, Robert

Branca, Giovanni

Buonamici, Francesco

Buteo, Johannes

Cardano, Girolamo

Casati, Paolo

Castelli, Benedetto

Cataneo, Girolamo

Ceredi, Giuseppe

Ceva, Giovanni

Cicero, M. Tullius

Commandino, Federico

Delfino, Federico

Descartes, Rene

Epicurus

Euclid

Fabri, Honore

Foscarini, Paolo Antonio

Galilei, Galileo

Gassendi, Pierre

Ghetaldi, Marino

Giphanius, Hubert

Guevara, Giovanni di

Heron Alexandrinus

Heytesbury, William

Hutton, Charles

Jordanus de Nemore

Landi, Bassiano

Lorini, Buonaiuto

Lucretius

Manuzio, Paolo

Marci of Kronland, Johannes Marcus

Mellini, Domenico

Mersenne, Marin

Monantheuil, Henri de

Monte, Guidobaldo del

Morelli, Gregorio

Newton, Isaac

Pacioli, Luca

Pappus Alexandrinus

Salusbury, Thomas

Santbech, Daniel

Schott, Gaspar

Schreck, Johann Terrenz

Stelliola, Niccolò Antonio

Stevin, Simon

Tartaglia, Niccolò

Thomaz, Alvaro

Thucydides

Torricelli, Evangelista

Valerio, Luca

Varro, Michel

Vitruvius Pollio

Wolff, Christian von


























 
Babington, John
English mathematician and artillerist

Hardly anything is known about his life. He was probably born around 1604, as T. Cooper reports in his work “A new biographical dictionary” of 1873. In 1635 Babington published his “Pyrotechnia, or a Discourse of Artificiall Fireworks,” to which is also appended a Short Treatise of Geometrie ... with the tables for the square root to 25,000 and the cubick root to 10,000 Latus, wherein allroots under those numbers ... are extracted onely by ocular inspection. The first part deals with the military use of fireworks, and also with their utilization for general entertainment. This first part is dedicated to “Earl of Newport, Master of his Majesties Ordnance”; in the foreword, Babington writes of himself that “I have been for certain yeeres past, and so at present am, one of the inferiour gunners of his Majestie.” The second part, the Short Treatise of Geometrie, was written predominantly for the needs of artillerists and is dedicated to “Sir John Heyden, Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance.” The tables of the square and cubic roots which close the book are the first tables of square and cubic roots ever to be published in England.



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Pyrotechnia
1635