How Long to Read Poor Robin's Prophecies

How Long Does it Take to Read Poor Robin's Prophecies?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Poor Robin's Prophecies by Benjamin Wardhaugh

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Author, astrologer, journalist, satirist, and 'well-willer to the mathematics', Poor Robin of Saffron Walden was a fantastic, yet invented, figure of British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period. Poor Robin's Almanac first appeared in 1662, developing an enthusiastic following and long outliving its original creator to last until 1828. Benjamin Wardhaugh tells the great story of Georgian popular mathematics - through Poor Robin's remarkable life, from his humble beginnings as an almanac-writer through to best-selling stardom, controversy, and decline. Using the character, wit, and columns of Poor Robin, Wardhaugh explores the mathematics of ordinary people, from learning sums to using mathematics in weighing and measuring, in business, agriculture, map-making, and navigation. This is a history of mathematics that is rarely thought about — creative, popular, and led by practical and social needs. It is centered on the ordinary people that used it. Their names remain little-known; their solutions have vanished along with the situations that required them; but their energy and ideas - as captured by Poor Robin - create a wonderfully rich picture of what mathematics can be, and has been.

How long is Poor Robin's Prophecies?

Poor Robin's Prophecies by Benjamin Wardhaugh is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Poor Robin's Prophecies Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read Poor Robin's Prophecies aloud.

What Reading Level is Poor Robin's Prophecies?

Poor Robin's Prophecies is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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