Francis Bashforth
Francis Bashforth was a British applied mathematician who studied ballistics.
Bashforth studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, where he was Second Wrangler in the 1843 Tripos examination. Later he was a fellow at St. John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in the Anglican Church. From 1857 until 1892, he was the school rector at Minting in Lincolnshire.
Between 1864 and 1880 he undertook some systematic ballistics experiments that studied the resistance of air. He invented a ballistic chronograph. He received an award from the British government in the amount of £2000. At times, he was also a professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
He also studied liquid drops and surface tension.
The Adams–Bashforth method is named after John Couch Adams and Bashforth. They used the method to study drop formation in 1883.Writings
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