Nicholas Saunderson FRS (1682-1739). This area is dedicated to Nicholas Saunderson FRS, a blind English scientist and mathematician, after whom this estate is named. Nicholas was born locally in Thurlstone, and as a child he taught himself to read by using his fingers to trace engravings of tombstones in St John the Baptist Church in Penistone. According to one historian of statistics, he may have been the earliest discoverer of Bayes' Theorem. He worked as a Lucasian professor, a post which was also held by Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage and Stephen Hawking.
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