"A Most Astonishing Genius for Calculations": Arithmetical Prodigies, the Science of the Mind, and Human Difference in the Early Republic.

In the early republic, two socially marginal, illiterate, and innumerate prodigies capable of astounding feats of mental arithmetic captivated audiences on both sides of the Atlantic: Thomas Fuller, an enslaved Virginian, and Zerah Colburn, the eight-year-old son of a poor Vermont farm family. To ac...

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Publicado en:	Journal of the Early Republic Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 389 - 421
Autor principal:	Thornton, Tamara Plakins
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	University of North Carolina Press Fall2022
Materias:	Gifted persons Mathematical ability Fuller, Thomas Colburn, Zerah Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 1777-1855 Thought & thinking Buxton, Jedediah United States history, 1783-1815
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