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Poor Robins Prophecies A Curious Almanac And The Everyday Mathematics Of Georgian Britain 1st Edition Wardhaugh

Name: Poor Robins Prophecies A Curious Almanac And The Everyday Mathematics Of Georgian Britain 1st Edition Wardhaugh
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Poor Robins Prophecies A Curious Almanac And The Everyday Mathematics Of Georgian Britain 1st Edition Wardhaugh instant download after payment.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 2.59 MB

Pages: 256

Author: Wardhaugh, Benjamin

ISBN: 9780199605422, 0199605424

Language: English

Year: 2012

Edition: 1

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Poor Robins Prophecies A Curious Almanac And The Everyday Mathematics Of Georgian Britain 1st Edition Wardhaugh by Wardhaugh, Benjamin 9780199605422, 0199605424 instant download after payment.

Tells the story of how ordinary people in eighteenth-century Britain learned and applied popular practical mathematics to weighing and measuring, business, agriculture, surveying, and navigation. The annual almanac 'Poor Robin'--first published in 1663 and outliving its original creator to last until 1828--supplied the data everyone needed about the coming year's tides, equinoxes, and astronomical events. Poor Robin of Saffron Walden, a fantastical figure in British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period, also provided arithmetical tips and tricks as well as subversive spoof astrology and political satire.
Abstract: From the reign of Charles II to the early 19th century, a curious Almanac - part 'teach-yourself mathematics', part political satire - promoted the use of science in everyday life and trades. Benjamin Wardaugh tells the story of the rumbustious 'Poor Robin of Saffron Walden', and the rise of popular science in Georgian England.