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Poor Robin's prophecies : a curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain /
Author, astrologer, journalist, satirist, and 'well-willer to the mathematics', Poor Robin of Saffron Walden was a fantastic, yet invented, figure of British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period. Poor Robin's Almanac first appeared in 1662, developing...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Chapter 1 'Doctor Faustus' day': Making it fun
- Chapter 2 'The dismal and long expected morning': Getting it wrong
- Chapter 3 'Fitted to the meanest capacity': Learning it
- Chapter 4 'My Scarbrough expenses': Using it
- Chapter 5 'Close and demonstrative reasoning': Beautifying the mind
- Chapter 6 'An universal Mathesis': Ordering the world
- Chapter 7 'A compleat Officer of Artillery': Getting it right
- Chapter 8 'The terrible pons asinorum': Playing with it
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on sources
- Index.