Macnish, Robert, 1802-1837 · Glasgow, John Symington & Co.; Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd; London, Whittaker & Co. · leaf 141
organ. Zerah Colburn, the American calculating boy, GeorgeBidder, and Jedediah Buxton—all of them distinguished fortheir extraordinary arithmetical talents, are instances inpoint. The same remark applies to Playfair, Leslie, InigoJones, Wren, Hutton, Euler, and Kepler: and these distin-guished men… … 87 Some calculating boys lose their arithmetical talent when they growup. Such was the case Avith a relative of ray own, who at the age of sevenpossessed great natural capabilities in this way, but in four or five years he NUMBER. 135 Is this organ larger in some nations than in others ? It is. In…
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