The Poetry of Math


Arithmetick let a man understand
And after that, Geometry command.
Then let him turn Astronomer and prove
How many Stars are fix'd, how many move.
Next a Geographer Earth's Globe survey
The long-sought, unfound Longitude display.
Apollo's Lyre next let him take in hand,
And all the high Soul-charming Aires command.
Yea, let him have all Arts, all are but smoke
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Edward Cocker 1675

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history of math


1707 Calculating Longitude!
When three British ships and 2000 of Britains finest fighting men died due to miscalculation something needed to be done.
http://www.britannia.com/history/biographies/cloudesley_shovell.html
http://www.scsc.k12.ar.us/1999outwest/members/MockK/monograph.htm
http://www.junglephotos.com/galapagos/gmaps/aboutmaps/navigation.shtml
http://apps.fss.gsa.gov/pub/mtips/Nov_Dec03/NovDec041.pdf
http://www.gcstudio.com/calcuse.html
http://www.wcrl.ars.usda.gov/cec/java/lat-long.htm

1777
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Gauss.html