Download or read book Passages from the Life of a Philosopher written by Charles Babbage and published by London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. This book was released on 1864 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles Babbage written by Charles Babbage and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Babbage written by Anthony Hyman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage.
Download or read book The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage written by J. M. Dubbey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes Babbage's work on the design and implementation of the difference and analytical engines.
Download or read book Science and Reform written by Charles Babbage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-05-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Philosophical Breakfast Club written by Laura J. Snyder and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] fascinating book...about the way four geniuses at Cambridge University revolutionized modern science.“ —Newsweek The Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones. Recognizing that they shared a love of science (as well as good food and drink) they began to meet on Sunday mornings to talk about the state of science in Britain and the world at large. Inspired by the great 17th century scientific reformer and political figure Francis Bacon—another former student of Cambridge—the Philosophical Breakfast Club plotted to bring about a new scientific revolution. And to a remarkable extent, they succeeded, even in ways they never intended. Historian of science and philosopher Laura J. Snyder exposes the political passions, religious impulses, friendships, rivalries, and love of knowledge—and power—that drove these extraordinary men. Whewell (who not only invented the word “scientist,” but also founded the fields of crystallography, mathematical economics, and the science of tides), Babbage (a mathematical genius who invented the modern computer), Herschel (who mapped the skies of the Southern Hemisphere and contributed to the invention of photography), and Jones (a curate who shaped the science of economics) were at the vanguard of the modernization of science. This absorbing narrative of people, science and ideas chronicles the intellectual revolution inaugurated by these men, one that continues to mold our understanding of the world around us and of our place within it. Drawing upon the voluminous correspondence between the four men over the fifty years of their work, Laura J. Snyder shows how friendship worked to spur the men on to greater accomplishments, and how it enabled them to transform science and help create the modern world. "The lives and works of these men come across as fit for Masterpiece Theatre.” —Wall Street Journal "Snyder succeeds famously in evoking the excitement, variety and wide-open sense of possibility of the scientific life in 19th-century Britain...splendidly evoked in this engaging book.” —American Scientist "This fine book is as wide-ranging and anecdotal, as excited and exciting, as those long-ago Sunday morning conversations at Cambridge. The Philosophical Breakfast Club forms a natural successor to Jenny Uglow’s The Lunar Men...and Richard Holmes’s The Age of Wonder.” —Washington Post
Download or read book Charles Babbage written by Bruce Collier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-28 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and work of the man whose nineteenth century inventions led to the development of the computer.
Download or read book On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures written by Charles Babbage and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Passages from the Life of a Philosopher written by Charles Babbage and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2019-07-20T21:10:32Z with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Babbage was a Victorian polymath, and someone with a seemingly never-ending intellectual curiosity about the world around him. A mathematician by training, he also wrote copiously on subjects such as economics, physics, engineering, computation, cryptography, religion and education, along with conducting practical experiments with pretty much anything that had grabbed his interest at the time. Today, he’s widely viewed to be the father of the computer with his Difference and Analytical Engines. Although neither were fully completed during his lifetime, a working replica of the Difference Engine was built in the 1990s, and an Analytical Engine is currently in the planning stages. This autobiography (first published near the end of his life in 1864) veers from topic to topic and rarely settles on any subject for more than a chapter. Apart from his early life and an explanation of the thinking behind his computing Engines, Babbage also transcribes his memories of climbing into an active volcano, arguing with street musicians, picking locks, standing in elections, and imagining life as a cheese mite, among other diverse subjects. The original meaning of the titular word “Philosopher” is “lover of wisdom,” and this book shows Babbage to be just that. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise written by Charles Babbage and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Passages from the Life of a Philosopher written by Charles Babbage and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Passages from the Life of a Philosopher' is a fascinating autobiography of Charles Babbage, an English polymath known for his groundbreaking work in mathematics, philosophy, engineering, and invention. Babbage is credited with originating the concept of a digital programmable computer and is considered by many to be the "father of the computer." This book provides a unique insight into Babbage's life, interests, and achievements, including his invention of the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, and his development of the Analytical Engine, which contained all the essential ideas of modern computers. Babbage's wide range of interests and contributions in other fields make him a prominent figure among the many polymaths of his time. Although he died before the completion of many of his designs, his legacy lives on in the field of computing, and his work continues to inspire generations of inventors and engineers.
Download or read book When Computers Were Human written by David Alan Grier and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world. The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.
Download or read book The Works of Charles Babbage Passages from the life of a Philosopher written by Charles Babbage and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Passages from the Life of a Philosopher written by Charles Babbage and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Babbage's classic autobiography and exploration of a multitude of subjects, including: Value of a celebrated Name, My Ancestors, Their Ante-Mosaic origin, Flint-workers, Toolmakers, Not descended from Cain, Ought a Philosopher to avow it if he were?, Probability of Descent from Tubal Cain, Argument in favour, he worked in Iron, On the other side, he invented Organs, Possible origin of my Name, Family History in very recent times, Childhood, Early Passion for inquiry and inquisition into Toys, Lost on London Bridge, Supposed value of the young Philosopher, Found again, Strange Coincidence in after-years, Poisoned, Frightened a Schoolfellow by a Ghost, Frightened himself by trying to raise the Devil, Effect of Want of Occupation for the Mind, Treasure-trove, Death and Nonappearance of a Schoolfellow, Earliest Recollections, Boyhood, Cambridge, Difference Engine No. 1, First Idea at Cambridge, Plan for Dividing Astronomical Instruments, Idea of a Machine to calculate Tables by Differences, Illustrations by Piles of Cannonballs., Explanation of the Difference Engine, Of the Mechanical Arrangements Necessary for Computing Tables by the Method of Differences, Description of the Existing Portion of Difference Engine No., Statement Relative to the Difference Engine, Drawn Up by the Late Sir H. Nicolas from the Author's Papers, Difference Engine No. II, Of the Analytical Engine, Built Workshops for constructing the Analytical Engine, Difficulties about carrying the Tens, Unexpectedly solved, Application of the Jacquard Principle, Treatment of Tables, Probable Time required for Arithmetical Operations, Conditions it must fulfil, Unlimited in Number of Figures, or in extent of Analytical Operations, The Author invited to Turin in, Meetings for Discussion, Plana, Menabrea, MacCullagh, Mosotti, Difficulty proposed by the latter, Observations on the Errata of Astronomical Tables, Suggestions for a Reform of Analytical Signs., Of the Mechanical Notation, The Exhibition of, Circumstances Connected with the Exhibition of the Difference Engine No. in the International Exhibition of, List of Mechanical Notations Proposed to Be Lent for the Exhibition, The Late Prince Consort, Count Mensdorf mentions to the Duke of Wellington his wish to see the Difference Engine, An appointment made, Prince Albert expresses his intention of accompanying his uncle, Time of appointment altered, Their visit, accompanied by the Duke of Wellington, Portrait of Jacquard, Anecdote of Wilkie, Afghanistan arms, Extract from the Author's work on the Exhibition of, Recollections of the Duke of Wellington, Recollections of Wollaston, Davy, and Rogers, The Thaumatrope, Recollections of Laplace, Biot, and Humboldt, Alexander Humboldt, Of the Bonaparte Family, Experience by Water, Experience by Fire, Baked in an Oven, A Living Volcano, Hot Springs, Earthquakes, Fire Damp, Experience Amongst Workmen, Picking Locks and Deciphering, Deciphering, Experience in St. Giles's, Theatrical Experience, Electioneering Experience, Scene from a New Afterpiece, Called "Politics and Poetry;" or, "The Decline of Science", Dramatis Personæ, Scenes, etc., Extracted, Experience at Courts, Experience at Courts, Railways, Street Nuisances, Wit, Hints for Travellers, Miracles, Religion, The à priori proof of the existence of a Deity, Proof from Revelation, Dr. Johnson's definition of Inspiration, Various Meanings assigned to the word 'Revelation', Illustration of transmitted Testimony, The third source of proof of the existence of a Deity, By an examination of His Works, Effect of hearing the Athanasian Creed read for the first time, A Vision, Various Reminiscences, On Preventing the Forgery of Banknotes, An Émeute, Letters of Credit, The Speaker, Ancient Music, The Author's Contributions to Human Knowledge, and Formation of Various Scientific Societies.Babbage, a British polymath, is credited with being the first to conceive of a programmable computer.
Download or read book The Works of Charles Babbage Passages from the life of a philosopher Bibliography of volumes 1 11 Index to volumes 1 11 written by Charles Babbage and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
