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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 an enthusiastic following and long outliving its original creator to last until 1828. Benjamin Wardhaugh tells the great story of Georgian popular mathematics - through Poor Robin's remarkable life, from his humble beginnings as an almanac-writer through to best-selling stardom, controversy, and decline. Using the character, wit, and columns of Poor Robin, Wardhaugh explores the mathematics of ordinary people, from learning sums to using mathematics in weighing and measuring, in business, agriculture, map-making, and navigation. This is a history of mathematics that is rarely thought about -- creative, popular, and led by practical and social needs. It is centered on the ordinary people that used it. Their names remain little-known; their solutions have vanished along with the situations that required them; but their energy and ideas - as captured by Poor Robin - create a wonderfully rich picture of what mathematics can be, and has been. |
| Beschreibung: | Title from PDF title page (viewed Oct. 1, 2012). |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191644566 0191644560 0199605424 9780199605422 9781283609678 1283609673 0191644579 9780191644573 9786613922120 6613922129 |
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| spelling | Wardhaugh, Benjamin, 1979- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjwkpWDxm9YWXpj3DCPk9P http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007104822 Poor Robin's prophecies : a curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain / by Benjamin Wardhaugh. 1st ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file rda Includes bibliographical references and index. Title from PDF title page (viewed Oct. 1, 2012). 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 an enthusiastic following and long outliving its original creator to last until 1828. Benjamin Wardhaugh tells the great story of Georgian popular mathematics - through Poor Robin's remarkable life, from his humble beginnings as an almanac-writer through to best-selling stardom, controversy, and decline. Using the character, wit, and columns of Poor Robin, Wardhaugh explores the mathematics of ordinary people, from learning sums to using mathematics in weighing and measuring, in business, agriculture, map-making, and navigation. This is a history of mathematics that is rarely thought about -- creative, popular, and led by practical and social needs. It is centered on the ordinary people that used it. Their names remain little-known; their solutions have vanished along with the situations that required them; but their energy and ideas - as captured by Poor Robin - create a wonderfully rich picture of what mathematics can be, and has been. 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. English. Mathematics History. Mathématiques Histoire. MATHEMATICS History & Philosophy. bisacsh Mathematics fast History fast has work: Poor Robin's prophecies (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCG4d4DrXHwby6WCjTGJdQq https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: 9781283609678 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=481872 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Wardhaugh, Benjamin, 1979- Poor Robin's prophecies : a curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain / 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. Mathematics History. Mathématiques Histoire. MATHEMATICS History & Philosophy. bisacsh Mathematics fast |
| title | Poor Robin's prophecies : a curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain / |
| title_auth | Poor Robin's prophecies : a curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain / |
| title_exact_search | Poor Robin's prophecies : a curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain / |
| title_full | Poor Robin's prophecies : a curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain / by Benjamin Wardhaugh. |
| title_fullStr | Poor Robin's prophecies : a curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain / by Benjamin Wardhaugh. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Poor Robin's prophecies : a curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain / by Benjamin Wardhaugh. |
| title_short | Poor Robin's prophecies : |
| title_sort | poor robin s prophecies a curious almanac and the everyday mathematics of georgian britain |
| title_sub | a curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain / |
| topic | Mathematics History. Mathématiques Histoire. MATHEMATICS History & Philosophy. bisacsh Mathematics fast |
| topic_facet | Mathematics History. Mathématiques Histoire. MATHEMATICS History & Philosophy. Mathematics History |
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