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Charles Babbage and the Countess by Patricia S. Warrick

Charles Babbage and the Countess

Patricia S. Warrick

516 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography science informative slow-paced
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Charles Babbage was thirty years old in 1821, as was his close friend, John Herschel, and in English intellectual circles they were both regarded as brilliant mathematicians. One day as Babbage worked in preparing logarithmic tables, a tedious and...

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