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Babbage Obituary and Other Babbage Bits

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BBabbage portrait detail

[Image source: Giants of Science]

Here’s a fine piece of work on Charles Babbage from a very early period (volume 5) of Nature–succinct and tight and only two pages.  (It was buried in the middle of the issue, which surprised me, as I thought he’d be placed up front rather than tucked into the middle. So it goes.)

Some other bits on Babbage on this blog:

  • Poe, Babbage, and Thinking Machines, 1836 (here) 
  • The Broken Windows of Uncle Chuckles–Charles Babbage Figures Stuff Out, 1857 (here)

 

NATURE Babbage obit

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