Article ID: CBB000073779

Memory, efficiency, and symbolic analysis: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and the industrial mind (1996)

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Description “This essay examines the attempt of John Herschel and Charles Babbage to discipline the human mind and speed up the operations of intelligence through a philosophy of algebraic analysis;... The mind was rendered visible and open to empirical scrutiny in exactly the same way as any other object of scientific study or manufacturing site. The way was then open to the possibility of artificially building the same kind of intelligence into a machine.”


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Authors & Contributors
Ashworth, William J.
Wilson, David Ball
Wilkes, M. V.
Turvey, Peter J.
Sussman, Herbert
Steinicke, Wolfgang
Concepts
Science
Astronomy
Scientific families
Personality of the scientist
Natural theology
Automata; robotics; cyborgs
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
Institutions
Cambridge University
Leeds Astronomical Society
Analytical Society
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