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Zerah Colburn, a mental calculator, as a child. Stipple engraving by H. Meyer, 1813, after T.H. Hull.
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Lettering: Zerah Colburn, a child just eight years of age, endowed by nature with the remarkable faculty of solving a great variety of arithmetical questions by the mere operation of his mind. From a drawing by T. Hull esqr. ; Engraved by Henry Meyer, Grt. Russell Street, Bloomsbury.
Title: Zerah Colburn, a mental calculator, as a child. Stipple engraving by H. Meyer, 1813, after T.H. Hull.
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Lettering: Zerah Colburn, a child just eight years of age, endowed by nature with the remarkable faculty of solving a great variety of arithmetical questions by the mere operation of his mind.
From a drawing by T.
Hull esqr.
; Engraved by Henry Meyer, Grt.
Russell Street, Bloomsbury.
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