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Gunpowder and Geometry - The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel (Paperback)
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Gunpowder and Geometry - The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 1 850
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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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