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Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton. Benjamin Wardhaugh. PB 2019
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- Narrative Type
- Non-Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United Kingdom
- Book Title
- Gunpowder and Geometry: the Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
- Publisher
- Harpercollins Publishers
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- Mathematics
- Item Width
- 153mm
- Item Weight
- 390g
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface. Cramped, dust-choked, wielding a five-pound pick by candlelight. Eighteen years old, he's been down the pits on and off for more than a decade, and now it looks like a life sentence. No unusual story, although Charles is a clever lad - gifted at maths and languages - and for a time he hoped for a different life. Many hoped. Charles Hutton, astonishingly, would actually live the life he dreamed of. Twenty years later you'd have found him in Slaughter's coffee house in London, eating a few oysters with the President of the Royal Society. By the time he died, in 1823, he was a fellow of scientific academies in four countries, while the Lord Chancellor of England counted himself fortunate to have known him. Hard work, talent, and no small share of luck would take Charles Hutton out of the pit to international fame, wealth, admiration and happiness. The pit-boy turned professor would become one of the most revered British scientists of his day. This book is his incredible story.
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Harpercollins Publishers
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Book Title
Gunpowder and Geometry: the Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Mathematics
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
320 Pages
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234mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
390g
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United Kingdom
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