Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage

by Charles Babbage

Book Overview

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. Among his friends were the Bonapartes, the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Somerset, Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace and the reforming Earl of Shaftesbury, whose interest Babbage directed to the factories. In this book,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521036763
• ISBN13: 9780521036764
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"