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

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

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

Newton's third law of motion Newton's laws of motion are three basic laws of classical mechanics that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it. These laws can be paraphrased as follows: # A body remains at rest, or in motio ...

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 Little is known of his life, because many relevant historical documents were destroyed by German bombing in

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Publications

* ''Theory on the motion of Rockets'' (1810) * ''A Treatise on the Doctrine of Fluxations'' (1811) * ''Treatise on the Motion of Rockets ndan Essay on Naval Gunnery'' (1813)

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