Science and Reform : Selected Works of Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage

ISBN 10: 0521036763 / ISBN 13: 9780521036764

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Beschreibung

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Charles Babbage was a key figure of a great era of British history. Best remembered for his pioneering Difference and Analytical Engines, forerunners of the modern computer, Babbage was also an active reformer of science and society. Among his friends were the Bonapartes, the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Somerset, Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace and the reforming Earl of Shaftesbury, whose interest Babbage directed to the factories. In this book, Anthony Hyman has selected passages from Babbage's many publications, including his proposals on profit sharing and life peerages and his ideas on such topics as the applications of science, scientific management, taxation and life assurance. Setting each extract in perspective, Hyman has provided the passages with an explanatory editorial commentary. Together with his concern for the systematic application of science, technology and mathematical method to commercial, industrial and economic problems, his work on computing makes Charles Babbage one of the most remarkable as well as one of the most colourful figures in the history of science.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Science and Reform : Selected Works of Charles Babbage
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521036763
• ISBN-13: 9780521036764
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 244B x 170 H x 20 T Millimeter Breite: 244 mm, Höhe: 170 mm, Tiefe: 20 mm
• Gewicht: 635 Gramm

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Charles Babbage was a key figure of a great era of British history.

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.