Excerpt from Calculated Tables of Ranges for Navy and Army Guns: With a Method of Finding the Distance of an Object at Sea I have tried to avoid these difficulties in determining the amount of retard ation in terms of the velocity, for it is not the number of pounds of resistance a shot experiences that we wish to know, but the actual amount of retardation that this resistance causes. This I claim to have discovered, and from this I deduce the initial velocity, and, finally, the horizontal range. With regard to the time of flight of a shot, actual experiment shows it to be equal to the angle of elevation, varying, in extreme case s, a second or two from this rule. I have deduced a formula, based upon this fact, which gives the time of flight very nearly for all classes of guns, for since the theory must be discovered from the ranges, 8m. Of a gun, I believe that I am right in thus basing my calculations upon experiment. I have tried to avoid the difficulties which previous investigators have fallen into, and I think that I have succeeded in doing so, and if so, I hope that an indulgent public will not fail to appreciate it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.