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Gunnery Quadrant for Cannons!

Lauren SiegelApril 22, 2019History Connections, Making Math, Mathematical Artifacts, Museum, Ways to like mathLeave a Comment

Mike Bailey of the Brazoria County Historical Museum provided us this photo.  He is using our model Gunner’s Quadrant with a cannon there at the Museum.   We based our model on the one seen above in an article on Nicholas Tartaglia, the inventor of ballistics. https://www.famousscientists.org/niccolo-tartaglia/  

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