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Poor Robin's Prophecies

by Benjamin Wardhaugh

2012 272 pages eng

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 unti…

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