Passages from the Life of a Philosopher. Charles Babbage

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Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I. MY ANCESTORS.

       CHAPTER II. CHILDHOOD.

       Earliest Recollections.

       CHAPTER III. BOYHOOD.

       CHAPTER IV. CAMBRIDGE.

       CHAPTER V. DIFFERENCE ENGINE NO. 1.

       Explanation of the Difference Engine.

       Of the Mechanical Arrangements necessary for computing Tables by the Method of Differences.

       Description of the existing portion of Difference Engine No. 1.

       CHAPTER VI.

       CHAPTER VII. DIFFERENCE ENGINE NO. II.

       CHAPTER VIII. OF THE ANALYTICAL ENGINE.

       CHAPTER IX. OF THE MECHANICAL NOTATION.

       CHAPTER X. THE EXHIBITION OF 1862.

       Circumstances connected with the Exhibition of the Difference Engine No. 1 in the International Exhibition of 1862.

       List of Mechanical Notations proposed to be Lent for the Exhibition.

       CHAPTER XI. THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.

       CHAPTER XII. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

       CHAPTER XIII. RECOLLECTIONS OF WOLLASTON, DAVY, AND ROGERS.

       The Thaumatrope.

       CHAPTER XIV. RECOLLECTIONS OF LAPLACE, BIOT, AND HUMBOLDT.

       Alexander Humboldt.

       Of the Buonaparte Family.

       CHAPTER XV. EXPERIENCE BY WATER.

       CHAPTER XVI. EXPERIENCE BY FIRE.

       Baked in an Oven.

       A Living Volcano.

       Hot Springs.

       Earthquakes.

       Fire Damp.

       CHAPTER XVII. EXPERIENCE AMONGST WORKMEN.

       CHAPTER XVIII. PICKING LOCKS AND DECIPHERING.

       Deciphering.

       CHAPTER XIX. EXPERIENCE IN ST. GILES’S.

       CHAPTER XX. THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE.

       CHAPTER XXI. ELECTIONEERING EXPERIENCE.

       CHAPTER XXII. SCENE FROM A NEW AFTER-PIECE, CALLED “ Politics and Poetry ;” or , “ The Decline of Science .”

       ACT I.

       ACT II.

       CHAPTER XXIII. EXPERIENCE AT COURTS.

       CHAPTER XXIV. EXPERIENCE AT COURTS.

       CHAPTER XXV. RAILWAYS.

       CHAPTER XXVI. STREET NUISANCES.

       CHAPTER XXVII. WIT.

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