Author: HYMAN, ANTHONY (1928-)
Title: Charles Babbage : pioneer of the computer / Anthony Hyman
Description: Oxford : Oxford University Press 1982. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 287 pages; Physical description; xv. 287 p. [33] p of plates : ill. facsims. plans. ports ; 24 cm. Includes bibliography and index. Summary; 304. plates. figures. To many. the name Charles Babbage (1792-1871) conjures up the picture of an eccentric 19th-century Englishman who tinkered with calculators and designed the forerunner of today's multi-purpose stored program computer: a quirky mathematician obsessed with a grand scheme. They would be surprised to learn that Babbage was a polymath. a sophisticated traveler. a devoted husband. a political and social reformer and friend of the eminent. Freelance writer and Oxford scholar Anthony Hyman does his hero up proud in this definitive biography - not only describing the many facets of the life. but also providing the socio-cultural background for Babbage's many outspoken proposals. Subjects; Babbage. Charles 1791-1871 - Exposition of 1851.ISBN: 019858170X. Weight in Kg appr.:

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