Book ID: CBB000032655

The calculating machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their history and development. Translated and edited by Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich and Williams, Michael R. (1992)

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Martin, Ernst (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 1992
Physical Details: xvii + 367 pp.; illus.; index

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Review Warwick, A. (1997) Review of "The calculating machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their history and development. Translated and edited by Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich and Williams, Michael R.". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 243-44). unapi

Review Swade, D. (1994) Review of "The calculating machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): Their history and development. Translated and edited by Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich and Williams, Michael R.". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 136-37). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ascher, Marcia
Ascher, Robert
Bromley, Allan G.
Collier, Bruce
Dotzler, Bernhard J.
Drake, Stillman
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
American Mathematical Monthly
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Scientific American
Technology and Culture
Weimarer Beiträge
Publishers
MIT Press
Bouvier
Garland
Hermann
Linköping Univ., Dept. of Technology and Social Change
Smithsonian Institution Press
Concepts
Technology
People
Babbage, Charles
Scheutz, Georg
Francesca, Piero della
Galilei, Galileo
Klaus, Karl Karlovich
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
17th century
Medieval
Renaissance
Institutions
KGB
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