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Poor Robins [sic] Prophecy for the Year 1805. ...
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Poor Robin's Prophecies
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.
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 prophecy, or, The last great news from the stars foretelling the mighty wonders that shall happen in the year 1689, the like have not been seen or known
Author: Poor Robin.
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Languages : en
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Poor Robins prophesies, and divertisements
Author: Poor Robin
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Languages : en
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
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Poor Robins Prophesies
Author: Poor Robin
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Category : Prophecies
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Category : Prophecies
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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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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Poor Robins prophesies, and divertisements
Author: Poor Robin
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Category : Fortune-telling
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Fortune-telling
Languages : en
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Poor Robin's Prophecy, Or, the Last Great News from the Stars
Author: Robin (Poor.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Pages : 8
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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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Poor Robin's Prophecy
Author: Poor Robin
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Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 5
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Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 5
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