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Babbage's Calculating Engines: A Collection of Papers by Henry Prevost Babbage (Charles Babbage Institute Reprint) - Hardcover
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Although Charles Babbage's complex calculating machines were unique in their time, there is no full description of them. Instead, Babbage, who preferred to spend his time on design and construction, collected the various contemporary writings on his work and when he died, his son completed the collection. These assembled papers discuss Babbage's Difference Engine, which he invented in 1821 to solve the practical problem of finding a means to reliably...
- PublisherThe MIT Press
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0262022001
- ISBN 13 9780262022002
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages393
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Babbage's Calculating Engines: A Collection of Papers by Henry Prevost Babbage. [London: E. and F. N. Spon, 1889.] Introduction by Allan G. Bromley. Volume II [2] [Two] in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original 1889 edition reprinted in facsimile. 393 pp. Original cloth, 4to. An ex-library copy with the usual markings, else Very Good, lacking slipcase. Out of print. 'Although Charles Babbage's complex calculating machines were unique in their time, there is no full description of them. Instead, Babbage, who preferred to spend his time on design and construction, collected the various contemporary writings on his work and when he died, his son completed the collection. These assembled papers discuss Babbage's Difference Engine, which he invented in 1821 to solve the practical problem of finding a means to reliably compute the many tables needed for navigation, and his Analytical Engine, which anticipated the logical conceptions of modern digital computers. The book includes extensive catalogs of drawings and 'notations' for the Analytical Engine and the first published account of Babbage's achievement by the military engineer Menabrea and its translation into English by Babbage's enthusiastic sponsor Ada (Lady) Lovelace the most important paper in the history of digital computing before modern times.: The book includes examples of Babbage's curious Mechanical Notation and several diagrams that were missing from the original edition. It is Volume II in the Charles Babbage reprint series and was originally published in 1889 by E. and F. N. Spon, London' (MIT Press Web site). Seller Inventory # 24203
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Condition: as new. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1982. Hardcover. 393 pp. Reprint of original 1889 edition. (Charles Babbage Institute Reprint). English text. Condition : as new. - Although Charles Babbage's complex calculating machines were unique in their time, there is no full description of them. Instead, Babbage, who preferred to spend his time on design and construction, collected the various contemporary writings on his work and when he died, his son completed the collection. These assembled papers discuss Babbage's Difference Engine, which he invented in 1821 to solve the practical problem of finding a means to reliably compute the many tables needed for navigation, and his Analytical Engine, which anticipated the logical conceptions of modern digital computers. The book includes extensive catalogs of drawings and "notations" for the Analytical Engine and the first published account of Babbage's achievement by the military engineer Menabrea and its translation into English by Babbage's enthusiastic sponsor Ada (Lady) Lovelace the most important paper in the history of digital computing before modern times.: The book includes examples of Babbage's curious Mechanical Notation and several diagrams that were missing from the original edition. It is Volume II in the Charles Babbage reprint series and was originally published in 1889 by E. and F. N. Spon, London. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780262022002. Keywords : HISTORY OF COMPUTING, Seller Inventory # 251059
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Babbage's Calculating Engines: A Collection of Papers by Henry Prevost Babbage. [London: E. and F. N. Spon, 1889.] Introduction by Allan G. Bromley. Volume II [2] [Two] in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series.
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Cambridge & London: MIT Press/ Los Angeles: Tomash, 1984., 1984
ISBN 10: 0262022001
ISBN 13: 9780262022002
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original 1889 edition reprinted in facsimile. 393 pp. Original cloth, 4to. Near Fine, in slipcase. Out of print. 'Although Charles Babbage's complex calculating machines were unique in their time, there is no full description of them. Instead, Babbage, who preferred to spend his time on design and construction, collected the various contemporary writings on his work and when he died, his son completed the collection. These assembled papers discuss Babbage's Difference Engine, which he invented in 1821 to solve the practical problem of finding a means to reliably compute the many tables needed for navigation, and his Analytical Engine, which anticipated the logical conceptions of modern digital computers. The book includes extensive catalogs of drawings and 'notations' for the Analytical Engine and the first published account of Babbage's achievement by the military engineer Menabrea and its translation into English by Babbage's enthusiastic sponsor Ada (Lady) Lovelace the most important paper in the history of digital computing before modern times.: The book includes examples of Babbage's curious Mechanical Notation and several diagrams that were missing from the original edition. It is Volume II in the Charles Babbage reprint series and was originally published in 1889 by E. and F. N. Spon, London' (MIT Press Web site). Seller Inventory # 20537
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