Thomas Wrightiana 20th century (including facsimiles of 18th and 19th century material)

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Thomas Wrightiana 20th century (including facsimiles of 18th and 19th century material)

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Wright, Thomas, 1711-1786

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Paneth, Fritz, 1887-1958

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Durham University Library

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Thomas Wright was born at Byers Green, Co. Durham. In 1730, at the age of 20, he set up his own school in Sunderland, where he taught mathematics and navigation, and sold mathematical instruments. Through the good offices of the Earl of Scarbrough, his instrument the pannauticon was approved by the Lords of the Admiralty, and the central period of his career was spent in London and in the country houses of aristocratic patrons. A polymath, Wright achieved distinction not only as a mathematician,...