Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage by Matthew L. Jones

Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage

Matthew L. Jones

336 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines. All failed—but that does not mean we cannot learn from the trail of ideas, correspondence...

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