Gunpowder and Geometry
August, 1755. Sunlight, or rain. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne.In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Cramped, dust-choked, wielding a fi… Celý popis ↓
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Gunpowder and Geometry
August, 1755. Sunlight, or rain. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne.In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in.
Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Cramped, dust-choked, wielding a five-pound pick by candlelight.
Eighteen years old, he's been down the pits on and off for more than a decade, and 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
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