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/a510.92 /bWAR 2019
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/aBENJAMIN WARDHAUGH
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/aGUNPOWER & GEOMETRY
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/aTHE LIFE OF CHARLES HUTON : PIT BOY, MATHEMATICIAN AND SCIENTIFIC REBEL
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/aWILLIAM COLLINS /bLONDON /c2019
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/a312 PAGES /bILLUSTRATIONS, POTRAITS ; 25 CM
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/aUNMEDIATED /2RDAMEDIA
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/aIn 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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/aCHARLES HUTTON /y1737-1823
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/aMATHEMATICIANS /zGREAT BRITAIN /xBIOGRAPHY
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