New Books in History
Matthew L. Jones, “Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
January 23, 2017
Matthew L. Jonesâs wonderful new book traces a history of failed efforts to make calculating machines, from Blaise Pascalâs work in the 1640s through the efforts of Charles Babbage in the nineteenth century, incorporating an account of both the workâ¦
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