Benjamin Wardhaugh: Gunpowder and Geometry [2019] hardback Condition:New Charles Hutton

Charles Hutton

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Benjamin Wardhaugh: Gunpowder and Geometry [2019] hardback Condition:New Charles HuttonAugust, 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 and off for more than a decade, and now it looks like a life sentence. No unusual story, although