Charles Babbage, considered the founding father of the computer, was a key figure during a great era of British history. Best remembered for his pioneering work on analytical and difference engines, the forerunners of the modern computer, Babbage was also an active campaigner for reform in both science and society. Babbage's wide-ranging interests ran from economic theory and statistics, to lighthouse signalling and postal services. His book, Reflections on the Decline of Science in England and Some of its Causes (1830) reflected his attempts to reorganize and control the conduct of scientific activity at a national level. In addition, he published widely on theoretical and practical science and social reform. In this book, Anthony Hyman, the acknowledged expert on Babbage's life and work, has selected passages from these many publications--reflecting his innovative scientific work and his thoughts on such subjects as taxation, abolition of life peerage and the assurance of lives--subjects which anticipated the preoccupations of present day society.
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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.
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CHARLES BABBAGE came from old Devonshire stock and both his parents belonged to leading Totnes families. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
carrying claws, nth function, bent lever, mechanical notation, calculating machinery, stereotyped plates, adding wheel, trigonometrical tables, figure wheels, moving axis, calculating engine, numerical tables, type sector, ratchet wheel, logarithmic tables, upper indices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Analytical Engine, Difference Engine, House of Commons, Nautical Almanac, Royal Society, Board of Longitude, Astronomical Society, Charles Babbage, Decline of Science, Numbers of Bernoulli, Ecole Polytechnique, Edinburgh Review, House of Lords, Adam Smith, House of Peers, Memoirs of the Analytical Society, Supplying Variable-cards, United States, Ada Lovelace, Brook Taylor, Lams of Mechanical Notation, Upper Chamber, Upper House New!
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carrying claws, nth function, bent lever, mechanical notation, calculating machinery, stereotyped plates, adding wheel, trigonometrical tables, figure wheels, moving axis, calculating engine, numerical tables, type sector, ratchet wheel, logarithmic tables, upper indices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Analytical Engine, Difference Engine, House of Commons, Nautical Almanac, Royal Society, Board of Longitude, Astronomical Society, Charles Babbage, Decline of Science, Numbers of Bernoulli, Ecole Polytechnique, Edinburgh Review, House of Lords, Adam Smith, House of Peers, Memoirs of the Analytical Society, Supplying Variable-cards, United States, Ada Lovelace, Brook Taylor, Lams of Mechanical Notation, Upper Chamber, Upper House New!
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- Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (The Pickering Masters) by Charles Babbage on 6 pages
- On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (Dodo Press) by Charles Babbage on 4 pages
- Reflections on the Decline of Science in England (Dodo Press) by Charles Babbage in Front Matter, page 116, and Back Matter
- Decline of Science in England by Charles Babbage in Front Matter, page 116, and Back Matter
- Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer by Anthony Hyman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture by Jay Clayton in Back Matter
- Defending Science-Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism by Susan Haack on page 205
- William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics) by Harro Maas in Back Matter
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