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Reckoning with matter : calculating machines, innovation, and thinking about thinking from Pascal to Babbage / Matthew L. Jones.
LIBRA QA75 .J66 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Matthew L. (Matthew Laurence), 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Calculators--History.
- Calculators.
- History.
- Computers--History.
- Computers.
- Technology--History.
- Technology.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 331 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- 1 Carrying Tens: Pascal, Morland, and the Challenge of Machine Calculation 13
- First Carry Babbage and Clement Mechanize Table Making 44
- 2 Artisans and Their Philosophers: Leibniz and Hooke Coordinate Minds, Metal, and Wood 56
- Second Carry Babbage Gets Funded 88
- 3 Improvement for Profit: Calculating Machines and the Prehistory of Intellectual Property 97
- Third Carry Babbage Claims His Property 122
- 4 Reinventing the Wheel: Emulation in the European Enlightenment 126
- Fourth Carry Babbage Confronts Prior Art 157
- 5 Teething Problems: Charles Stanhope and the Coordination of Technical Knowledge from Geneva to Kent 162
- Fifth Carry Babbage's Collaborators Emulate 200
- 6 Calculating Machines, Creativity, and Humility from Leibniz to Turing 212.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226411460
- 022641146X
- OCLC:
- 944086965
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