Robert Anderson (mathematician)

Robert Anderson (fl. 1668–1696), was an English mathematician and silk-weaver.

Anderson was from London. John Collins, one of the early members of the Royal Society, helped with the loan of books and the supply of scientific information.[1] He devoted special attention to improving the art of gunnery, and during at least twenty-one years from 1671 conducted some thousands of experiments with cannon mounted at his own expense on Wimbledon Common, showing that his means must have been considerable. ‘I am very well assured,’ he says,[2] ‘I have done more, being a private person, than all the engineers and gunners with their yearly salaries and allowances, since the first invention of this warlike engine.’

He wrote:

References

  1. Stereometrical Propositions, Preface
  2. Genuine Use and Effects of the Gunne, p. 32

 "Anderson, Robert (fl.1668-1696)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 

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