Charles Babbage

1791-1871

The Babbage Pages (5)
 

Analytical Engine (A1, 3)
Difference Engine (3)

Mathematics biography (1)
Biographical sketch (4)
 

Notes

Selected Works of Charles Babbage

A1. Charles Babbage, "Of the Analytical Engine," Chap. 8 in Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864). Also available online at http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/lpae.html (Fourmilab, Switzerland, accessed 2003 Sep 22).

A2. Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864). (2)


1. John J. O'Conner and Edmund F. Robertson, "Charles Babbage," http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Babbage.html (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, accessed 2003 Sep 11)

2. Publication information from Philip Morrison and Emily Morrison, eds. Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator (Dover Publications, Inc., 1961), 3.

3. Allan G. Bromley, "Difference and Analytical Engines," Chap. 2 in Computing Before Computers (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1990). Also available online at http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/DocumentArchive/Documents/Books/Computing Before Computers/CBC-Ch-02.pdf (Computer History Museum, accessed 2003 Mar 19).

4. John van Wyhe, "Charles Babbage," http://www.victorianweb.org/science/babbage.html (Victorian Web, accessed 2004 Sep 15).

5. Anthony Hyman, ed., "The Babbage Pages," http://www.ex.ac.uk/BABBAGE/ (University of Exeter, accessed 2004 Sep 15).

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