Article ID: CBB001321055

Babbage's Two Lives (2014)

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Babbage wrote two relatively detailed, yet significantly incongruous, autobiographical accounts of his pre-Cambridge and Cambridge days. He published one in 1864 and in it advertised the existence of the other, which he carefully retained in manuscript form. The aim of this paper is to chart in some detail for the first time the discrepancies between the two accounts, to compare and assess their relative credibility, and to explain their author's possible reasons for knowingly fabricating the less credible of the two. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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Authors & Contributors
Bont, Raf de
Babbage, Charles
Baldwin, Melinda Clare
Browne, E. Janet
Crilly, Tony
Dawson, Gowan
Journals
History of Science
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Historia Mathematica
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
History of the Human Sciences
International Journal of Impact Engineering
Publishers
Broadway Books
Bucknell University Press
Manchester University Press
Olschki
Pickering & Chatto
State University of New York Press
Concepts
Physics
Autobiographies
Correspondence and corresponding
Science and literature
Science and politics
Controversies and disputes
People
Babbage, Charles
Herschel, John Frederick William
Kant, Immanuel
Oken, Lorenz
Pasteur, Louis
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
17th century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
Cambridge (England)
Germany
England
Berlin (Germany)
Italy
Institutions
Cambridge University
Cavendish Laboratory
Whipple Museum of the History of Science (Cambridge, Eng.)
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