Gunpowder And Geometry: The Life Of Charles Hutton: Pit Boy Mathematician Scientific Rebel Benjamin Wardhaugh William Collins Αγγλικά Βιβλία Computing

August 1755 Newcastle On The North Bank Of Tyne In Fields Men And Women Are Getting Harvest Sunlight Or Rain Scudding Clouds Backbreaking Labour Three Hundred Feet Underground Young Charles Hutton Is At Coalface Cramped Dust-Choked Wielding A Five-Pound Pick By Candlelight Eighteen Years Old He’s Been Down Pits Off For More Than Decade Now It Looks Like Life Sentence No Unusual Story Although Clever Lad – Gifted Maths Languages Time He Hoped Different Many Astonishingly Would Actually Live Dreamed Twenty Later You’d Have Found Him Slaughter’s Coffee House London Eating Few Oysters With President Royal Society Died 1823 Was Fellow Scientific Academies Four Countries While Lord Chancellor England Counted Himself Fortunate To Known Hard Work Talent Small Share Luck Take Out Pit International Fame Wealth Admiration Happiness Pit-Boy Turned Professor Become One Most Revered British Scientists His Day This Book Incredible Σελίδες: 320 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm