Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
Description:... Manuscript of the printed text of the complete autobiography of Charles Babbage (1791-1871), the technological genius who invented the first computer a hundred and fifty years ago! It is interleaved with original letters from contemporary scientists, including Dalton, Murchison, Faraday, Owen, Brunel, Oersted, Airy, and H. F. Talbot, dated 1804-1847.
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