Reckoning with Matter
Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking About Thinking from Pascal to Babbage
From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines. All failed--but that doesn't mean we can't learn from the trail of ideas, correspondence, machines, and arguments they left behind. In Reckoning with Matter, Matthew Jones draws on the remarkably extensive and well-preserved records of the quest to explore the concrete processes involved in imagining, elaborating, testing, and building calculating machines. He explores the writings of philosophers, engineers, and craftspeople, showing how they thought about technical novelty, their dis…
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- ISBN: 978-0-226-41146-0
- EAN: 9780226411460
- Produktnummer: 19706990
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H16.4 cm x B23.6 cm x D2.5 cm 612 g
- Gewicht: 612
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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