William Moore (British mathematician)

William Moore (fl. 1806 – c. 1823[1]) was a British mathematician and early contributor to rocket theory[2]. He worked at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. His 1813 Treatise was the first exposition of rocket mechanics based on Newton's third law of motion. Little is known of his life, because many relevant historical documents were destroyed by German bombing in World War II .

Publications
  • Theory on the motion of Rockets (1810)
  • A Treatise on the Doctrine of Fluxations (1811)
  • Treatise on the Motion of Rockets [and] an Essay on Naval Gunnery (1813)
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See also

References
  1. W. Johnson, ‘Moore, Joe William (fl. c.1806–1823)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 22 April 2006
  2. Moore, William; of the Military Academy at Woolwich (1810). A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts Vol. XXVII, December 1810, Article IV: Theory on the motion of Rockets. London: W. Nichelson.


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