Jones M.L. Reckoning with matter: calculating machines, innovation, and thinking about thinking from Pascal to Babbage. - Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. - 331 p.: ill. - Ref.: p.293-320. - Ind.: p.321-331. - ISBN 978-0-226-41146-0 Шифр: 01  Место хранения:   01 | ГПНТБ СО РАН | Новосибирск

Оглавление / Contents

Introduction ................................................. 1 1 Carrying Tens: Pascal, Morland, and the Challenge of Machine Calculation ......................................... 13 FIRST CARRY. Babbage and Clement Mechanize Table Making ........ 44 2 Artisans and Their Philosophers: Leibniz and Hooke Coordinate Minds, Metal, and Wood ........................... 56 SECOND CARRY. Babbage Gets Funded .............................. 88 3 Improvement for Profit: Calculating Machines and the Prehistory of Intellectual Property ..................... 97 THIRD CARRY. Babbage Claims His Property ...................... 122 4 Reinventing the Wheel: Emulation in the European Enlightenment .............................................. 126 FOURTH CARRY. Babbage Confronts Prior Art ..................... 157 5 Teething Problems: Charles Stanhope and the Coordination of Technical Knowledge from Geneva to Kent ................. 162 FIFTH CARRY. Babbage's Collaborators Emulate .................. 200 6 Calculating Machines, Creativity, and Humility from Leibniz to Turing .......................................... 212 FINAL CARRY. Epilogue ......................................... 239 Acknowledgments ............................................... 251 Conventions ................................................... 255 Abbreviations ................................................. 257 Notes ......................................................... 259 References .................................................... 293 Index ......................................................... 321