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Excerpt from A Revised Account of the Experiments Made With the Bashforth Chronograph, to Find the Resistance of the Air to the Motion of Projectiles: With the Application of the Results to the Calculation of Trajectories According to J. Bernoulli's Method
3. But there were no trustworthy means of comparing the results of theory and experiment until Robins, by the use of his ballistic pendulum and his whirling machine, made valuable attempts to discover the law of resistance of the air to the motion of small-arm bullets. He describes his ballistic pen dulum as follows A B C 1) represents the body of the machine.
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