In message . net, Bill
McClain writes

A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century recounted
this story in a logical order up to the time of writing. The treatment
was `popular,' by which Clerke meant `popular in the sense of eschewing
mathematical formulae,' not in the sense of `evading difficulties.'


I thought that was a modern idea, but apparently that's not so!
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Rabbit arithmetic - 1 plus 1 equals 10
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