Gunpower & Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton - Pit Boy, Mathematician & Scientific Rebel

Benjamin Wardhaugh

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ISBN 10: 0008299951 ISBN 13: 9780008299958

Published by Williams Collins, 2019

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Gunpower & Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton - Pit Boy, Mathematician & Scientific Rebel

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Williams Collins

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2019

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English

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0008299951

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9780008299958

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Hardcover

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From his humble beginning as a Newcastle pit boy in the 1740s Charles Hutton rose to become a Fellow of the Royal Society by the time he was 40. This biography follows his meteoric ascent and describes his contributions to mathematics, including work on the force of gunpowder and calculating the mass of the Earth.

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