15 items found

Adelard of Bath: the first English scientist (1994)

Louise Cochrane

George Bidder, of Devonshire, aet.13 whose extraordinary power of calculation developed itself without instruction & reached an unprecedented height before he attained his seventh year: from a ... (1819)

John Henry Robinson (Royal Academy engraver)

Des Cartes: from the original picture by Francis Hals in the gallery of the Louvre ([1830?])

William Holl

Sir Isaac Newton. Ob.1727. From the original of Kneller, in the collection of the Right Honble.the Earl of Egremont (1829)

William Thomas Fry

The cogwheel brain: Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer (2000)

Doron Swade

Mathematical papers (1882)

William Kingdon Clifford

Irascible genius: the life of Charles Babbage, inventor (1964)

Maboth Moseley

The Babbage papers in the Science Museum Library: a cross-referenced text (1991)

Science Museum Library

The schoolmaster's repository, or pupil's exercise .. (1764)

Donn, Benjamin

Mathematical essays ; or a new introduction to the mathematics: being essays on vulgar and decimal arithmetic ... (1764)

Donn, Benjamin

Charles Babbage and his calculating engines (1991)

Doron Swade

On the economy of machinery and manufactures (1832)

Charles Babbage

Duodecimal arithmetick: viz notation, addition, ... duodecimally performed, ... By Joshua Jordaine of Exon, philo-accomptant (1687)

Joshua Jordaine

Some extraordinary examples in mental calculations: Questions answered by George Bidder in 1815 aged 9 years and a half (1819)

George Parker Bidder

Memoir of the life and labours of the late Charles Babbage, Esq. F.R.S. (1988)

Henry Wilmot Buxton