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- 2012472609 abstract "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 until 1828--supplied the data everyone needed about the coming year's tides, equinoxes, and astronomical events. Poor Robin of Saffron Walden, a fantastical figure in British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period, also provided arithmetical tips and tricks as well as subversive spoof astrology and political satire.".
- 2012472609 contributor B12636180.
- 2012472609 created "2012.".
- 2012472609 date "2012".
- 2012472609 date "2012.".
- 2012472609 dateCopyrighted "2012.".
- 2012472609 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-243) and index.".
- 2012472609 description "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 until 1828--supplied the data everyone needed about the coming year's tides, equinoxes, and astronomical events. Poor Robin of Saffron Walden, a fantastical figure in British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period, also provided arithmetical tips and tricks as well as subversive spoof astrology and political satire.".
- 2012472609 extent "viii, 248 p. :".
- 2012472609 identifier "0199605424 (hbk.)".
- 2012472609 identifier "9780199605422 (hbk.)".
- 2012472609 issued "2012".
- 2012472609 issued "2012.".
- 2012472609 language "eng".
- 2012472609 publisher "Oxford : Oxford University Press,".
- 2012472609 spatial "England".
- 2012472609 subject "510.9 23".
- 2012472609 subject "Almanacs, English 18th century.".
- 2012472609 subject "Mathematics England History 18th century.".
- 2012472609 subject "Mathematics England Popular works History 18th century.".
- 2012472609 subject "Mathematics Study and teaching England History 18th century.".
- 2012472609 subject "Poor Robin.".
- 2012472609 subject "QA27.G7 W37 2012".
- 2012472609 title "Poor Robin's prophecies : a curious almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain / Benjamin Wardhaugh.".
- 2012472609 type "text".