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PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER
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PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER

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Author(s): ( CHARLES BABBAGE )

Publisher: ( ZIG ZAG Books )

Some men write their lives to save themselves from ennui, careless of the amount they inflict on their readers. Others write their personal history, .... Read More

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    PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER

    Some men write their lives to save themselves from ennui, careless of the amount they inflict on their readers. Others write their personal history, lest some kind friend should survive them, and, in showing off his own talent, unwittingly show them up. Others, again, write their own life from a different motive—from fear that the vampires of literature might make it their prey

    ( CHARLES BABBAGE )

    Category: General
    ISBN: BABBAGE-XXX-XXX
    Sr Chapter Name No Of Page
    1 Epigraph 1
    2 Dedication 1
    3 Frontispiece 1
    4 Passages from the Life of a Philosopher 1
    5 I: My Ancestors 3
    6 II: Childhood 0
    7 Earliest Recollections 5
    8 III: Boyhood 4
    9 IV: Cambridge 8
    10 V: Difference Engine No. I 4
    11 Explanation of the Difference Engine 5
    12 Of the Mechanical Arrangements Necessary for Computing Tables by the Method of Differences 5
    13 Description of the Existing Portion of Difference Engine No. 1 3
    14 VI: Statement Relative to the Difference Engine, Drawn Up by the Late Sir H. Nicolas from the Author’s Papers 16
    15 VII: Difference Engine No. II 7
    16 VIII: Of the Analytical Engine 16
    17 IX: Of the Mechanical Notation -78
    18 X: The Exhibition of 1862 81
    19 Circumstances Connected with the Exhibition of the Difference Engine No. 1 in the International Exhibition of 1862 4
    20 List of Mechanical Notations Proposed to Be Lent for the Exhibition 7
    21 XI: The Late Prince Consort 3
    22 XII: Recollections of the Duke of Wellington 7
    23 XIII: Recollections of Wollaston, Davy, and Rogers 1
    24 The Thaumatrope 4
    25 XIV: Recollections of Laplace, Biot, and Humboldt 2
    26 Alexander Humboldt 2
    27 Of the Bonaparte Family 2
    28 XV: Experience by Water 3
    29 XVI: Experience by Fire 1
    30 Baked in an Oven 0
    31 A Living Volcano 4
    32 Hot Springs 1
    33 Earthquakes 1
    34 Fire Damp 132 2
    35 XVII: Experience Amongst Workmen 3
    36 XVIII: Picking Locks and Deciphering 1
    37 Deciphering 5
    38 XIX: Experience in St. Giles’s 5
    39 XX: Theatrical Experience 4
    40 XXI: Electioneering Experience 9
    41 XXII: Scene from a New Afterpiece, Called “Politics and Poetry;” or, “The Decline of Science” Dramatis Personæ 1
    42 Scenes, etc., Extracted 0
    43 Act I 0
    44 Scene I 0
    45 Scene IV 1
    46 Scene V 2
    47 Scene VI 1
    48 Scene VII 1
    49 Scene IX 1
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