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Keywords: Jedediah Buxton.jpg Jedediah Buxton The caption reads Jedediah Buxton A poor Day Labourer born at Elmton in Derbyshire who without being able to write or cast Accounts in the Ordinary method perfor'md the longest Calculations and solv'd the most difficult Problems in Arithmetics by the strength of his Memory; - neither Noise nor Conversation cou'd interrupt him he would either go on with his Calculations all the time or leave off in the midst and resume them again eventhough it should be Years afterwards 1781 http //wellcomeimages org/indexplus/image/V0007021 html Mezzotint by J Spilsbury after B Killingbeck PD-old-100 Jedediah Buxton
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