Not hard science enough?

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,