Passages from the Life of a Philosopher


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Charles Babbage


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A biography of inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage.




The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage


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This book describes Babbage's work on the design and implementation of the difference and analytical engines.







On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings


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Charles Babbage (1792–1871) articulated the principles behind modern computing machines. This compilation of his writings, plus those of several of his contemporaries, illuminates the early history of the calculator.




Science and Reform


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Charles Babbage was a key figure of a great era of British history. Best remembered for his pioneering Difference and Analytical Engines, forerunners of the modern computer, Babbage was also an active reformer of science and society.







Charles Babbage


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Traces the life and work of the man whose nineteenth century inventions led to the development of the computer.