Ronald Hutton

Charles Hutton

Ronald Hutton is Britain's foremost historian of the English Restoration. His book The Restoration was hailed as "a real tour de force" by History, a work "to which all historians will have to refer," and immediately established itself as the definitive history of the period. Now, in Charles II, Hutton offers a comprehensive biography of the king who returned to England in triumph after the death of Cromwell, re-establishing the monarchy that continues to reign to this day. Hutton reveals the excitement and tragedy of Charles's youth, as the realm erupted into savage civil war, leading to the execution of his father King Charles I at the hands of the rebellious Parliament. His life turned into a long, desperate struggle to claim his crown, including a catastrophic invasion of Cromwell's England that ended in a lonely flight, as he hid in orchards, ditches, and the famous Boscobel Oak. Yet Charles persevered, and was finally recalled from exile by an exhausted nation in 1660. Charles emerges in this narrative as a "monarch in a masquerade," a charming, duplicitous, and astonishingly lucky king who spent less time governing than he did at play (when he wasn't hunting, racing, or sailing he was with one of a series of mistresses, producing seventeen acknowledged bastards). Hutton vividly depicts him as a colorful and often underhanded ruler, physically brave in battle, but a moral coward in religion--first he promised to become a Presbyterian for Scottish aid, then later offered to convert to Catholicism for French help, eventually alienating everyone. His reign endured catastrophe and unrest, from the plague and the Great Fire of London, to defeat at the hands of the Dutch, to Protestant hysteria about a Catholic plot to seize the throne, to the disastrous results of his own secret diplomacy. But Charles in his good fortune survived all of it, beautifully rebuilding London after the fire and firmly anchoring a monarchy whose future had once been bleak. Chosen as a main selection of the History Book Club, Charles II presents an unmatched account of the private life and dramatic public career of this fascinating king. This lively and comprehensive biography, written by a major historian of the Restoration period, captures the politics and personalities of a mometentous era.

Charles the Second, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland

Containing the Common, Hyperbolic, and Logistic Logarithms, Also Sines, Tangents, Secants, and Versed Sines Both Natural and Logarithmic. Together with Several Other Tables Useful in Mathematical Calculations, Also the Complete Description and Use of the Tables

Mathematical Tables

Containing Common, Hyperbolic, and Logistic Logarithms. Also Sines, Tangents, Secants, and Versed-sines, ... By Charles Hutton, ...

From 1763 to 1769

The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London from Their Commencement in 1665 to the Year 1800, Abridged with Notes and Biographic Illustr. by Charles Hutton, George Shaw, Richard Pearson

Consisting of a Large Collection of Curious Mathematical Problems, and Their Solutions. Together with Many Other Important Disquisitions in Various Branches of the Mathematics. Being the Literary Correspondence of Several Eminent Mathematicians

Miscellanea Mathematica

From 1781 to 1785

From 1683 to 1694

For the Use of Academies as Well as Private Tuition : in Two Volumes

A Course of Mathematics

Containing the Common, Hyperbolic, and Logistic Logarithms, Also Sines, Tangents, Secants, and Versed Sines Both Natural and Logarithmic. Together with Several Other Tables Useful in Mathematical Calculations. Also the Complete Description and Use of the Tables

A Course of Mathematics ... Fourth edition, enlarged and corrected

Containing the Common, Hyperbolic, and Logistic Logarithms, Also Sines, Tangents, Secants, & Versed-sines Both Natural and Logarithmic. Together with Several Other Tables Useful in Mathematical Calculations. To which is Prefixed a Large and Original History of the Discoveries and Writings Relating to Those Subjects; with the Complete Description and Use of the Tables

Mathematical Tables;

Consisting of All the Useful and Entertaining Parts, Both Mathematical and Poetical, Extracted from the Ladies' Diary, from the Beginning of that Work in the Year 1704, Down to the End of the Year 1773. With Many Additional Solutions and Improvements

The Diarian Miscellany

Royal Society (Great Britain)

Richard Pearson

The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, from Their Commencement, in 1665, to the Year 1800; Abridged, with Notes and Biographic Illustrations, by Charles Hutton ... George Shaw ... Richard Pearson ...: 1672-1683

Composed for the Use of the Royal Military Academy

Mathematical tables; containing common, hyperbolic, and logistic logarithms ... The second edition. Few MS. notes

Also Sines, Tangents, Secants, & Versed-sines Both Natural and Logarithmic. Together with Several Other Tables Useful in Mathematical Calculations. To which is Prefixed, a Large and Original History of the Discoveries and Writings Relating to Those Subjects; with the Complete Description and Use of the Tables

Mathematical Tables; Containing the Common, Hyperbolic, and Logistic Logarithms

Containing the Common, Hyperbolic, and Logistic Logarithms, Together with Several Other Tables Useful in Mathematical Calculations

In Two Volumes. For the Use of the Royal Military Academy

Charles Hutton

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