TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wardhaugh,Benjamin
TI  - Poor Robin's prophecies: a curious almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain 
SN  - 9780199605422 (hbk.)
U1  - 510.9 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Poor Robin.
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Almanacs, English
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Popular works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-243) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -