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AUTHORS: 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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