Article ID: CBB000040395

Sir John Herschel and the abandonment of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1 (1991)

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Description “Recent research in the Herschel Archive at the Royal Society has shed new light on the Government's decision to abandon Babbage's `Difference Engine No. 1' in 1842, and uncovered Sir John Herschel's role in the affair.”


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Authors & Contributors
Ashworth, William J.
Zimmerman, Andrew D.
Wilson, David Ball
Wilkes, M. V.
Steinicke, Wolfgang
Snyder, Laura J.
Journals
History of Science
British Journal for the History of Science
Rivista di Filosofia
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Journal of the British Astronomical Association
Publishers
University of Notre Dame
State University of New York Press
Broadway Books
Books on Demand
Concepts
Science
Astronomy
Scientific families
Personality of the scientist
Automata; robotics; cyborgs
Mathematical analysis
People
Herschel, John Frederick William
Babbage, Charles
Whewell, William
Peacock, George
Jones, Richard
Baily, Francis
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
Institutions
Cambridge University
Leeds Astronomical Society
Analytical Society
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