Benjamin Robins

1707 - 1751

Benjamin Robins was an English engineer who wrote on Newton's mathematics and invented the ballistic pendulum.
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Honours awarded to Benjamin Robins
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Fellow of the Royal Society1727
Royal Society Copley Medal1746

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