TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wardhaugh,Benjamin
AU  - Kuznick,Peter
TI  - GUNPOWDER & GEOMETRY: The Life of Charles Hutton : Pity Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel 
SN  - 9780008299965
U1  - 510.92 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - William Collins
KW  - Hutton, Charles,
KW  - Mathematicians
KW  - Biography.
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface. Cramped, dust-choked, wielding a five-pound pick by candlelight. Eighteen years old, he's been down the pits on & off for more than a decade, & now it looks like a life sentence. No unusual story, although Charles is a clever lad gifted at maths and languages and,
for a time, he hoped for a different life. Many hoped. Charles Hutton, astonishingly, would actually live the life he dreamed of. Twenty years later you'd have found him in Slaughter's coffee house in London, eating a few oysters with the President of the Royal Society. By the time he died, in 1823, he was a fellow of scientific academies in four countries, while the Lord Chancellor of England counted himself fortunate to have known him. Hard work, talent, and no small share of luck would take Charles Hutton out of the pit to international fame, wealth, admiration and happiness. The pit-boy turned professor would become one of the most revered British scientists of his day. This book is his incredible story
ER  -