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Francis Bashforth

lived from 1819 to 1912

Francis Bashforth was an applied mathematician who invented the Bashforth Chronograph and conducted experiments to determine air resistance. He became the leading British authority on ballistics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bashforth/