Charles Babbage

A Comparative View of the Various Institutions for the Assurance of Lives

London, J Mawman, 1826. First edition. Leather. The first edition of accomplished mathematician Charles Babbage's first written work. This work being the first thorough treatise on actuarial theory. With four leaves of publisher's adverts to the rear for Encyclopaedia Metropolitana (dated January 1826). This work was the first, and most reliable of its time, with regards insurance actuarial tables. It is also Babbage's first substantial published work. Babbage was inspired to write this work due to a lack in statistical science regarding the calculations of insurance businesses. Prior to this publication, Babbage was approached by a life insurance company to provide tables for their business. However, this insurance company was ultimately never formed. This work surveys that field and contains thirteen tables of premiums, equitable experience, mortality statistics and more. These tables were regarded as the most reliable at the time and Babbage intended to provide the wider public with knowledge of this strain of mathematics and make them aware of the lack of science being used by the insurance businesses. The DNB notes this work to be 'at least in part, a work of consumer protection with Babbage self-cast as champion of the expose&apos. Babbage states to the preface he is 'exposing the disgraceful practices&apos. 'A Comparative View' quickly became a classic in actuarial theory and is demonstrative of the statistically minded work Babbage continued to pursue throughout his life. The German translation of this work formed the basis for the Life Assurance Bank of Gotha. A fascinating work, written by a noted polymath. Babbage is considered by many to be the 'father of the computer', as he is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer. A very smart copy of this significant scientific work. In a half calf binding with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with just some minor fading to the spine. Minor chip to the bottom of title page. Small crease to the head of title page at the extremity. Title page is faded slightly. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 649L5

Catalogue: Mathematics

Keywords: Mathematics Science Charles Babbage Babbage Science Statistician None

BABBAGE, CHARLES, SWADE, D.

The difference engine. Charles Babbage and the quest to builld the first computer.

New York, Viking, 2001. (X) 342 pp. Hardcover + dustjacket. Bibliography. Illustrations. good condition

Antiquariaat IsisProfessional seller

Book number: 640585

Catalogue: Filosofie - Moderne filosofie (tot 1900)

Keywords: filosofie; modern; 49

BABBAGE Charles

The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government, of England.

(London, John Murray, 1851), Frank Cass, 1968 new impression of 2nd ed. xvi, 289pp. Cloth, 22x15. Ex Science and Technology Lending Library copy, library marks on front end paper and title page only, very good copy.

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Book number: 29823

Catalogue: INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

Keywords: INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

Charles Babbage

On Currency, on a New System of Manufacturing, and on the Effect of Machinery on Human Labour

London, Charles Knight, 1833. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce first separate edition of Charles Babbage's exploration on the effects of the Industrial Revolution on working Britain. The first separate edition of this work.A very scarce work.Rebound in paper wraps.Three chapters reprinted from Babbage's 'The Economy of Machinery and Manufactures&apos. This was published as a supplement to the first two editions of 'The Economy of Machinery and Manufactures&apos.Collated, complete. Collated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library.An interesting study on the changing world during the Industrial Revolution, and it's effects on human labour and the economy of currency.'The Economy of Machinery and Manufactures' was Babbage's researching work on the organisation of industrial production.Babbage was an English mathematician, best known today for his work with Ada Lovelace on the Difference and Analytical Engines. Rebound in paper wraps. Externally, smart. Tear to the head of the front wrap, the title page, and to the first three leaves. A couple of light marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with just a couple of light handling marks and spots. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 734P30

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: On Currency charles babbage technology manufacture charles babbage industry currency None

BABBAGE CHARLES

Passages from the Life of a Philosoper

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. 1864, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo. Book measures 22x14.5.cm. Collation, xii, 496pp, frontis, bound without catalogue. Bound in half calf, calf corners, cloth boards. Binding heavily worn. Internally, text bloch becoming loose. Library stamp on verso of half title, frontis, title page, and dedication, [ 4 stamps in all, not showing on printed side ], very occasional small blind stamp to text, [ about 5 in all ], no other library stamps. Frontis,has a few short tears title very slightly chipped, occasional light spotting. Generally text very clean. A good, better than working copy. Good.

George Jeffery BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 011432

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: charles babbage

Babbage, Charles

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher [1864]

New York, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. green cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 496 pp light foxing on the edges Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Very good .

San Francisco Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 100329

Catalogue: Philosophy

Babbage,Charles.

Passaggi dalla vita di uno scienziato. Autobiografia dell'inventore del computer.

Introduz.di Vittorio Marchis. A cura di Andrea Villa. Torino, 2007, Utet Libreria Coll.Frontiere. cm.15x23, pp.414, brossura con bandelle, coperti

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Book number: 130343

Catalogue: Biografie

BABBAGE, CHARLES

Reflections on the Decline of Science in England and on Some of Its Causes

Shannon, Ireland, Irish University Press. 1971, Reprint. (ISBN: 0716515784). hardcover. Used, An unabridged facsimile of the original 1830 publication. Part of the Development of Industrial Society series. Black cloth in transparent 'tracing paper' wrap, which is a little crumpled. Price pencilled on FEP. The book is in very good clean condition throughout. Very Good/No Dust Jacket.

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Book number: 109943

Catalogue: History - British

Keywords: 0716515784

BABBAGE Charles - Edouard BIOT ( translator ) :

Traité sur l'Economie des Machines et des Manufactures, by Ch. Babbage...traduit de l'Anglais sur la troisième édition par Éd. Biot.

.: Bruxelles, H.Dumont libraire-éditeur, rue du persil, 1834, in-8°, 17 x 10,7 cm, (4) nn pp + vii pp + 468 pp, sewn, with the original rose coloured printed wrapper. Uncut copy, with some very slight foxing at some page, cover and margins very slightly dustsoiled, last 6 pp with some dogearing. Excellent copy of this French translation of Babbage's '' On the economy of machinery and manufactures ''. This work appeared in 1832 and was allmost immediately translated into French by the famous French mathematicien Edouard Biot. Our copy is a pirated edition of this first French edition which was published by Bachelier in Paris in the previous year ( 1833). This pirated edition is proof of the immense success of Babbage's work. The system of pirated Brussels editions was in vogue until 1845 when an agreement between France (Paris) and Belgium (Brussels) settled the piracy. .

Antiquariaat Wim de GoeijProfessional seller

Book number: 48536

George Dodd; Charles Babbage

The Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences

London, Lea, 1852. Cloth. An uncommon publication, of twelve articles from George Dodd's 'Cyclopaedia of the Industry of All Nations&apos. This issue contains twelve articles under the title 'Dodd's Curiosities of Industry' and was issued under H Lea's imprint. This particular copy is lacking the title page, although collation matches the Lea publication. In the same year Routledge issued a copy containing sixteen of the articles, under the title 'The Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences&apos. First edition thus, the first edition of this collected issue. This twelve chapter issue is scarcer than the sixteen chapter issue. The article on "Calculating and registering machines" contains an account of Babbage's Difference Engine no. 1 and a brief notice of the Analytical Engine. Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Comprising of: Glass and Its Manufacture Iron and Its Manufacture Calculating and Registering Machines India Rubber and Gutta Percha Industrial Applications of Electricity Gold Paper Printing Its Modern Varieties Corn and Bread What they Owe to Machinery A Ship in the Nineteenth Century Fire and Light Wool and Silk, Fur and Feathers The chapters to this work were originally issued separately. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, sound, with loss to the head and tail of spine. Minor bumping to the extremities. Prior owner's bibliographic notes to the front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages 3-20 of 'Gold' is loosening. Pages are bright. Chips to edge of page 21 to 'Wool and Silk&apos. Pages are very clean. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 702L20

Catalogue: Engineering

Keywords: Babbage Calculating Machine Charles Babbage Dodd Calculating Machine None

Duke of Argyll Charles Babbage E R Lankester J Lubbock et al

Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (of London) twenty fourth volume 24 1868

London, Longmans, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. ex-university library binding. Charles Babbage "Many years have passed since I visited the remarkable scenery of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Several explanations of their origin have been given; and my own view of the subject was, I apprehended, in accordance with the views of geologists. The recent paper of Sir John Lubbock upon that subject shows that the causes which have hitherto been assigned for their origin have not yet received general assent. Under these circumstances, I think it desirable to record the very simple explanation of their origin which had satisfied my own mind." Good.

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Book number: 500025148

Keywords: GEOLOGY

QUETELET Adolphe ( author) - Charles BABBAGE :

Notice ( biographique) sur Charles Babbage (1792-1871), associé de l'Académie Royale de Belgique.

.: 0. Bruxelles, Académie Royale, 1873, in-8°, Annuaire 1873, 39e année, sewn, original green stiff wrapper. (uncut, unopened copy). Text in French. Article of ca. 16 pp published in the Academy's yearbook. Here the complete yearbook is on offer. (With also an article on the cartographer Van der Maelen). .

Antiquariaat Wim de GoeijProfessional seller

Book number: 38161