Babbage's Calculating Engines Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- 1 Statement of the circumstances attending the invention and construction of Mr. Babbage's Calculating Engines. From the “Philosophical Magazine,” September, 1843, p. 235
- 2 Article xxix., from Scientific Memoirs, vol. iii., p. 666
- 3 Babbage's Calculating Engine. From the “Edinburgh Review,” July, 1834, No. cxx.
- 4 Excerpt from “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”:—
- 5 Note on the Application of Machinery to the Computation of Astronomical and Mathematical Tables
- 6 A letter to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., President of the Royal Society, from Charles Babbage, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., on the Application of Machinery to the Calculating and Printing Mathematical Tables
- 7 On the Theoretical Principles of the Machinery for Calculating Tables
- 8 Observations on the Application of Machinery to the Computation of Mathematical Tables
- 9 Address of Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq., F.R.S., President of the Astronomical Society of London, on presenting the Gold Medal to Charles Babbage, Esq., F.R.S.
- 10 On Mr. Babbage's new machine, for Calculating and Printing Mathematical Tables
- 11 Minutes of the Council of the Royal Society, relating to the Report of the Committee on Mr. Babbage's Calculating Machine
- 12 Report of the Committee appointed by the Council of the Royal Society to consider the subject referred to in Mr. Stewart's Letter relative to Mr. Babbage's Calculating Engine, and to Report thereon
- 13 On a method of Expressing by Signs, the Action of Machinery
- 14 Laws of Mechanical Notation
- 15 Mechanical Notation, exemplified on the Swedish Calculating Machine
- 16 Scheutz's Difference Engine, and Babbage's Mechanical Notation
- 17 Sur la Machine Suédoise, de Messrs. Scheutz, pour calculer les Tables Mathématiques, par M. Charles Babbage. Extrait des Comptes-rendus des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences
- 18 Observations addressed at the last Anniversary to the President and Fellows of the Royal Society, after the delivery of the Medals
- 19 Letter of General Menabrea, to the Editor of Cosmos
- 20 Report of a Committee appointed by the Council of the Royal Society to examine the Calculating-Engine of M. Scheutz
- 21 Institution of Civil Engineers. Messrs. Scheutz's Calculating Machine was exhibited in the Library
- 22 Institution of Civil Engineers. A volume of Logarithms calculated and stereo-moulded
- 23 Analytical-Engine.—Catalogue of 386 Notations
- 24 Classed Catalogue of the Notations of the Analytical-Engine
- 25 Catalogue of the Drawings of the Analytical-Engine
- 26 List of other Drawings of the Analytical-Engine
- 27 List of Scribbling Books
- 28 Part of Chapter XIX. Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
- 29 Excerpt from the Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
- 30 Excerpt from the Exposition of 1851
- 31 Proceedings of the British Association, 1878
- 32 Proceedings of the British Association, 1888
- 33 Conclusion
- LIST OF MR. BABBAGE'S PRINTED PAPERS
- Plate section
2 - Article xxix., from Scientific Memoirs, vol. iii., p. 666
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- 1 Statement of the circumstances attending the invention and construction of Mr. Babbage's Calculating Engines. From the “Philosophical Magazine,” September, 1843, p. 235
- 2 Article xxix., from Scientific Memoirs, vol. iii., p. 666
- 3 Babbage's Calculating Engine. From the “Edinburgh Review,” July, 1834, No. cxx.
- 4 Excerpt from “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”:—
- 5 Note on the Application of Machinery to the Computation of Astronomical and Mathematical Tables
- 6 A letter to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., President of the Royal Society, from Charles Babbage, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., on the Application of Machinery to the Calculating and Printing Mathematical Tables
- 7 On the Theoretical Principles of the Machinery for Calculating Tables
- 8 Observations on the Application of Machinery to the Computation of Mathematical Tables
- 9 Address of Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq., F.R.S., President of the Astronomical Society of London, on presenting the Gold Medal to Charles Babbage, Esq., F.R.S.
- 10 On Mr. Babbage's new machine, for Calculating and Printing Mathematical Tables
- 11 Minutes of the Council of the Royal Society, relating to the Report of the Committee on Mr. Babbage's Calculating Machine
- 12 Report of the Committee appointed by the Council of the Royal Society to consider the subject referred to in Mr. Stewart's Letter relative to Mr. Babbage's Calculating Engine, and to Report thereon
- 13 On a method of Expressing by Signs, the Action of Machinery
- 14 Laws of Mechanical Notation
- 15 Mechanical Notation, exemplified on the Swedish Calculating Machine
- 16 Scheutz's Difference Engine, and Babbage's Mechanical Notation
- 17 Sur la Machine Suédoise, de Messrs. Scheutz, pour calculer les Tables Mathématiques, par M. Charles Babbage. Extrait des Comptes-rendus des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences
- 18 Observations addressed at the last Anniversary to the President and Fellows of the Royal Society, after the delivery of the Medals
- 19 Letter of General Menabrea, to the Editor of Cosmos
- 20 Report of a Committee appointed by the Council of the Royal Society to examine the Calculating-Engine of M. Scheutz
- 21 Institution of Civil Engineers. Messrs. Scheutz's Calculating Machine was exhibited in the Library
- 22 Institution of Civil Engineers. A volume of Logarithms calculated and stereo-moulded
- 23 Analytical-Engine.—Catalogue of 386 Notations
- 24 Classed Catalogue of the Notations of the Analytical-Engine
- 25 Catalogue of the Drawings of the Analytical-Engine
- 26 List of other Drawings of the Analytical-Engine
- 27 List of Scribbling Books
- 28 Part of Chapter XIX. Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
- 29 Excerpt from the Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
- 30 Excerpt from the Exposition of 1851
- 31 Proceedings of the British Association, 1878
- 32 Proceedings of the British Association, 1888
- 33 Conclusion
- LIST OF MR. BABBAGE'S PRINTED PAPERS
- Plate section
Summary
[Before submitting to our readers the translation of M. Menabrea's memoir ‘On the Mathematical Principles of the Analytical, Engine’ invented by Mr. Babbage, we shall present to them a list of the printed papers connected with the subject, and also of those relating to the Difference Engine by which it was preceded.
For information on Mr. Babbage's “Difference Engine,” which is but slightly alluded to by M. Menabrea, we refer the reader to the following sources:—
Letter to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., P.R.S., on the Application of Machinery to Calculate and Print Mathematical Tables. By Charles Babbage, Esq., F.R.S. London, July 1822. Reprinted, with a Report of the Council of the Royal Society, by order of the House of Commons, May 1823.
On the Application of Machinery to the Calculation of Astronomical and Mathematical Tables. By Charles Babbage, Esq.—Memoirs of the Astronomical Society, vol. i. part 2. London, 1822.
Address to the Astronomical Society by Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq., F.R.S., President, on presenting the first Gold Medal of the Society to Charles Babbage, Esq., for the invention of the Calculating Engine.—Memoirs of the Astronomical Society. London, 1822.
On the Determination of the General Term of a New Class of Infinite Series. By Charles Babbage, Esq.—Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
On Mr. Babbage's New Machine for Calculating and Printing Mathematical Tables.—Letter from Francis Baily, Esq., F.R.S., to M. Schumacher. No. 46, Astronomische Nachrichten. Reprinted in the Philosophical Magazine, May 1824.
On a Method of expressing by Signs the Action of Machinery. By Charles Babbage, Esq.—Philosophical Transactions. London, 1826.
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- Babbage's Calculating EnginesBeing a Collection of Papers Relating to them; their History and Construction, pp. 4 - 50Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1889