William Moore () was a British

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and early contributor to rocket theory. He worked at the Royal Military Academy,

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. His 1813 ''Treatise'' was the first exposition of rocket mechanics based on

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. Little is known of his life, because many relevant historical documents were destroyed by German bombing in

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.W. Johnson, ‘Moore, Joe William (fl. c.1806–1823)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004
accessed 22 April 2006

Publications

* ''Theory on the motion of Rockets'' (1810) * ''A Treatise on the Doctrine of Fluxations'' (1811)

(1813)

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19th-century British mathematicians Rocket science pioneers {{UK-mathematician-stub

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