Charles Babbage





Charles Babbage

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Passages from the Life of a...
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Economy of Machinery and Ma...
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On the Economy of Machinery...
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Reflections on the Decline ...
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Decline of Science in England
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Observations on the Temple ...
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A Comparative View of the V...
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The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
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“On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
Charles Babbage

“I find no flaw in your reasoning about the Analytical Engine; I admire it; but you are aware that it rests entirely on the hypothesis that I care for the 'whole human race.”
Charles Babbage



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