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(CHARLES BABBAGE) LARDNER, DIONYSIUS. Babbage's Calculating Engine (Running Head) in Edinburgh Review 59: Pages 263-327. Entire Volume 59 Offered.
Edinburgh:, 1834.. Hardcover. Very Good++ Hardback First Edition. Half Leather, Marbled Board Volume. Cover, Spine Edges Mild Wear. Owner Bookplate Front Paste-Down. Mild Foxing Endpapers. With Five Engravings of the Calculation Dials. 8vo. Ii, 545 Pps. Hook & Norman Origins of Cyberspace 51. The Most Extensive Contemporary Account of Difference Engine No. I Written By Dyonysius Lardner, a Noted Popularizer of Science. Hook & Norman Quote Bromley "from the Technical Detail That It Contains, Much of Which Can Be Directly Linked to the Drawings of the Machine, It Is Evident That Babbage Played a Substantial Hand in Its Preparation". Scheutz Obtained Detailed Information About Babbage's Difference Engine and Used That Data in Constructing His Own Calculating Machine Twenty Years Later. Very Good++.
Offered for US$ 500.00 by: By The Book, LC - Book number: 137