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 does not mean we cannot learn from the trail of ideas, correspondence, machines, and arguments they left behind. In...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, Matthew L. (Matthew Laurence), 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Temas:
Calculators > History.
Computers > History.
Technology > History.
Calculatrices > Histoire.
Ordinateurs > Histoire.
Technologie > Histoire.
MATHEMATICS > Essays.
MATHEMATICS > Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS > Reference.
Calculators.
Computers.
Technology.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Carrying Tens: Pascal, Morland, and the Challenge of Machine Calculation
  • 2. Artisans and Their Philosophers: Leibniz and Hooke Coordinate Minds, Metal, and Wood
  • 3. Improvement for Profit: Calculating Machines and the Prehistory of Intellectual Property
  • 4. Reinventing the Wheel: Emulation in the European Enlightenment
  • 5. Teething Problems: Charles Stanhope and the Coordination of Technical Knowledge from Geneva to Kent
  • 6. Calculating Machines, Creativity, and Humility from Leibniz to Turing
  • Final Carry Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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