[475] “Inventions and Devices,” 1578; No. 54, “Art of Shooting,” &c., p. 28.
[476] Ib., Preface.
[477] Halinitro Pyrbolia, Ulm, 1627, p. 9.
[478] Chap. xvi. p. 29.
[479] Napoleon III., iv. 54.
[480] Ib., 53.
[481] “Traité ... de fabriquer la Poudre,” &c. Bottée and Riffault, 1811, p. lij.
[482] Marquis de Chambray, Œuvres, v. 293-4.
[483] “Dieses Pendel wurde mit Recht als ein epochmachende Erfindung bezeichnet.” Gen. H. Müller, Entwickelung der Feldartillerie, Berlin, 1893, i. 23. To save the time of any of my readers who wish to read Gen. Müller’s remarks on our Artillery, I may mention that they will not be found under the heading “England,” but under the comprehensive heading Die kleineren Staaten, grouped with Greece, Switzerland, &c., ii 272.
[484] See Wheatstone’s own account of his instrument in the Comptes Rendus de l’Acad. des Sciences, 1845, tom. xx. pp. 1554-61.