Applications of Ballistics in the Eighteenth Century: A Necessity or Luxury?

这个项目将产生弹道学的背景历史，这是一个位于理性力学、实验物理和工程实践的交叉点上的主题，将为西方军事霸权在启蒙时代的崛起提供新的线索。这项工作将对科学史、技术史和全球军事史做出贡献，从非西方的角度解释是什么使早期现代欧洲的科学和军事革命如此具有革命性。

This project will produce a contextual history of ballistics, a topic situated at the intersection of rational mechanics, experimental physics, and engineering practice that will shed new light on the rise of Western military hegemony during the Age of Enlightenment. The work will contribute to the history of science, history of technology, and to global military history, explaining what made the Scientific and Military Revolutions of early modern Europe so revolutionary from a non-Western perspective.