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The military paid much attention to theoretical research in the domain of artillery characteristics - ballistics, sighting devices' design, ratio between charge mass and projectile mass, etc. In France, that research was conducted by Bellidore (in La Fere in 1730-1740); while Robius in England and Papacino d'Antoni in Turin (Piemonte) studied similar problems. Number crunching was vital to the study. The most prominent mathematicians and physicists conducted research for theoretical justification of experimental gunnery results. Galilei founded this theory and handed on the lamp to Newton, Blondelle, Bernoulli, and Euler. They studied laws of projectile flight and causes of deviation. Theoretical knowledge was passed to artillery officers. In 1690, a gunnery school was founded in France.