1. Charles Hutton FRS FRSE LLD was an English mathematician and surveyor.
12 Facts About Charles Hutton
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Charles Hutton was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807.
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Charles Hutton is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's measurements collected during the Schiehallion experiment.
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Charles Hutton was educated at a school at Jesmond, kept by Mr Ivison, an Anglican clergyman.
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In 1764 Charles Hutton published his first work, The Schoolmasters Guide, or a Complete System of Practical Arithmetic, which was followed by his Treatise on Mensuration both in Theory and Practice in 1770.
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Charles Hutton drew up a map for the corporation; a smaller one, of the town only, was engraved and published.
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Charles Hutton left Newcastle in 1773, following his appointment as professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
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Charles Hutton's results appeared in the society's Philosophical Transactions for 1778, and were later reprinted in the second volume of Charles Hutton's Tracts on Mathematical and Philosophical Subjects.
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Charles Hutton became the foreign secretary of the Royal Society in 1779.
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Charles Hutton was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1788.
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Charles Hutton had previously begun a small periodical called Miscellane Mathematica, of which only 13 numbers appeared; he subsequently published five volumes of The Diarian Miscellany which contained substantial extracts from the Diary.
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Charles Hutton died on 27 January 1823, and was buried in the family vault at Charlton, in Kent.