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Daniel Gumb

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

E. C. Axford
E. C. Axford*
Affiliation:
Treneglos, St. Neot, Liskeard, Cornwall
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On the eastern fringe of Bodmin Moor close to the natural rock formation known as the Cheesewring lies a large granite slab with a mathematical figure chiselled on its surface. Close by is another rock on which is carved, “D. Gumb, 1735”. This is all that remains of a rock shelter inhabited by Daniel Gumb, an eighteenth-century recluse. The rock shelter was demolished during quarrying operations and the inscribed stones which now lie a few yards south of the Cheesewring Quarry are about 100 yards south-west of their original site.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 54 , Issue 390 , December 1970 , pp. 335 - 336
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1970

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