This is an excellent, three volume (two of text, one of plates) artillery manual written specifically for the US Army. The reference list for the manual is extensive using period French and British artillery manuals and it is one of the best references available for the French Gribeauval System which the United States was beginning to adopt.
The twelve hundred pages of text cover period artillery quite literally 'from muzzle to breech' and it is a complete, highly detailed, artillery manual written in clear text and excellently illustrated in the third volume.
Volume I:
@Kevin F. Kiley It’s use in calculus is perfectly correct, it just doesn’t mean what you thinks it means. It does not mean “we are done”. It doesn’t even mean “I am right” or “this is true”. It means what it says, we have demonstrated it. There has been an experiment or a calculation of some sort. Quoting a source or an opinion is not demonstrating. If you think the truth self evident from your argument, the correct latin epithet is: “Adversus solem ne loquitor” Its a legal phase that literally means “you may as well question the sun” Using QED inappropriately debases it in the general usage, and weakens it’s power when it is rightfully deployed.
And which 'experts' would that be?
From Frederick Artz' The Development of Technical Education in France 1500 to 1850, page vii:
'The French, in the three and a half centuries between about 1500 and 1850, developed all, or nearly all, the basic forms of modern technical education. And in the course of time, from Russia across western Europe and the United States to Japan, all countries modeled their technical schools on those of France.'
So it appears that your statement regarding artillery schools is incorrect.
I didn't list all of the artillery references in my library, just some of the most important.
The first French artillery school was founded in 1689 at Douai. The artillery schools were revamped by Gribeauval in the 1760s by having the technical training upgraded. Napoleon further improved the schools. Woolwich was founded in 1741; the Austrian artillery school at Budweis in the early 1750s. The Prussians didn't have an artillery school until 1791 and it was disbanded in 1807. Russian artillery training was done in one of their 'Cadet Corps' but that was stopped by Tsar Paul.
And it was the French who had the only period artillery manual which addressed subjects above the battery/company level. This was Jean Duteil's excellent De l'Usage de l'Artillerie Nouvelle dans la Guerre de Campagne which was published in 1778. It greatly influenced French artillery employment from 1792-1815.
Quod Erat Demonstrandum.
Seemingly you miss quite a lot of German sources - as well as French ones, there was no need to model artillery schools according to the French ones, other states developed their own way of schooling gunners.
As to that - I cannot agree that Tousard is superior in any way to other authors.
I trust that you read Scharnhorst 3 volumes front to cover, as all the rest of the German sources you list.
By the way, I did not ask any questions about artillery in that context of that thread and I know experts I would ask, in case I have any.
In my view it is not one the best reference work about the Gribeauval system and contains quite a few translation errors - as - warning scourge of repetition, was pointed out in the Old NSF series forum, in calse you one to delve into Gribeauval - avoid Toussard and read the original French sources - which there are plenty - as for example the three volumes
Gribeauval, Jean - Baptiste Vacquette de : Tables Des Constructions Des Principaux Attirails De L'Artillerie Proposées ou apporouvées depuis 1764 jusque ' en 1789, Paris 1792
available online as well.