Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191644579
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Author, astrologer, journalist, satirist, and 'well-willer to the mathematics', Poor Robin of Saffron Walden was a fantastic, yet invented, figure of British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period. Poor Robin's Almanac first appeared in 1662, developing an enthusiastic following and long outliving its original creator to last until 1828. Benjamin Wardhaugh tells the great story of Georgian popular mathematics - through Poor Robin's remarkable life, from his humble beginnings as an almanac-writer through to best-selling stardom, controversy, and decline. Using the character, wit, and columns of Poor Robin, Wardhaugh explores the mathematics of ordinary people, from learning sums to using mathematics in weighing and measuring, in business, agriculture, map-making, and navigation. This is a history of mathematics that is rarely thought about — creative, popular, and led by practical and social needs. It is centered on the ordinary people that used it. Their names remain little-known; their solutions have vanished along with the situations that required them; but their energy and ideas - as captured by Poor Robin - create a wonderfully rich picture of what mathematics can be, and has been.
Poor Robin's Prophecies
Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191644579
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Author, astrologer, journalist, satirist, and 'well-willer to the mathematics', Poor Robin of Saffron Walden was a fantastic, yet invented, figure of British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period. Poor Robin's Almanac first appeared in 1662, developing an enthusiastic following and long outliving its original creator to last until 1828. Benjamin Wardhaugh tells the great story of Georgian popular mathematics - through Poor Robin's remarkable life, from his humble beginnings as an almanac-writer through to best-selling stardom, controversy, and decline. Using the character, wit, and columns of Poor Robin, Wardhaugh explores the mathematics of ordinary people, from learning sums to using mathematics in weighing and measuring, in business, agriculture, map-making, and navigation. This is a history of mathematics that is rarely thought about — creative, popular, and led by practical and social needs. It is centered on the ordinary people that used it. Their names remain little-known; their solutions have vanished along with the situations that required them; but their energy and ideas - as captured by Poor Robin - create a wonderfully rich picture of what mathematics can be, and has been.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191644579
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Author, astrologer, journalist, satirist, and 'well-willer to the mathematics', Poor Robin of Saffron Walden was a fantastic, yet invented, figure of British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period. Poor Robin's Almanac first appeared in 1662, developing an enthusiastic following and long outliving its original creator to last until 1828. Benjamin Wardhaugh tells the great story of Georgian popular mathematics - through Poor Robin's remarkable life, from his humble beginnings as an almanac-writer through to best-selling stardom, controversy, and decline. Using the character, wit, and columns of Poor Robin, Wardhaugh explores the mathematics of ordinary people, from learning sums to using mathematics in weighing and measuring, in business, agriculture, map-making, and navigation. This is a history of mathematics that is rarely thought about — creative, popular, and led by practical and social needs. It is centered on the ordinary people that used it. Their names remain little-known; their solutions have vanished along with the situations that required them; but their energy and ideas - as captured by Poor Robin - create a wonderfully rich picture of what mathematics can be, and has been.
Poor Robin's Creed, with His Observations on the Trinity
Author: Robert Hawker
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Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Four for a Penny, Or, Poor Robin's Character of an Unconscionable Pawn-broker
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Category : Pawnbroking
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Poor Robin's Prophecy. Being a True Astronomical Prediction of the Beginning, Continuance and Catastrophe of the ... Year 1679. And what Will be the Principal Actions Therein
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Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Pages : 52
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The Pleasant History of Poor Robin, the Merry Sadler of Walden.
Author: Poor ROBIN
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Notes and Queries
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Dictionary of National Biography
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Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Languages : en
Pages : 458
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The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1492
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1492
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Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie Stephen
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
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Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Pages : 668
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