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Gunpowder and Geometry

- The Life of Charles Hutton: Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
Af: Benjamin Wardhaugh Engelsk Paperback

Gunpowder and Geometry

- The Life of Charles Hutton: Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
Af: Benjamin Wardhaugh Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9780008299989
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0008299986
Kategori: Biografier: videnskab, teknologi og medicin
Udg. Dato: 23 jan 2020
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 121mm
Højde: 195mm
Forlag: HarperCollins Publishers
Oplagsdato: 23 jan 2020
Forfatter(e): Benjamin Wardhaugh
Forfatter(e) Benjamin Wardhaugh

Kategori Biografier: videnskab, teknologi og medicin

ISBN-13 9780008299989

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 320

Udgave

Længde 24mm

Bredde 121mm

Højde 195mm

Udg. Dato 23 jan 2020

Oplagsdato 23 jan 2020

Forlag HarperCollins Publishers

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