Charles Hutton

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Charles Hutton

British mathematician

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In 1775 Charles Hutton published five volumes of extracts from the Ladies’ Diary dealing with “entertaining mathematical and poetical parts.” On the Continent there appeared several writers, including: Christian Pescheck, Abat Bonaventura, the Dutch writer Paul Halcken, and Edme-Gilles Guyot’s four volumes of Nouvelles Récréations physiques et…
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In 1775 Charles Hutton published five volumes of extracts from the Ladies’ Diary dealing with “entertaining mathematical and poetical parts.” On the Continent there appeared several writers, including: Christian Pescheck, Abat Bonaventura, the Dutch writer Paul Halcken, and Edme-Gilles Guyot’s four volumes of Nouvelles Récréations physiques et…
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