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Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages; Physical description; xv, 287 p, [33] p of plates : ill, facsims, plans, ports ; 24 cm. Includes bibliography and index. Summary; 304, plates, figures. To many, the name Charles Babbage (1792-1871) conjures up the picture of an eccentric 19th-century Englishman who tinkered with calculators and designed the forerunner of today's multi-purpose stored program computer: a quirky mathematician obsessed with a grand scheme. They would be surprised to learn that Babbage was a polymath, a sophisticated traveler, a devoted husband, a political and social reformer and friend of the eminent. Freelance writer and Oxford scholar Anthony Hyman does his hero up proud in this definitive biography - not only describing the many facets of the life, but also providing the socio-cultural background for Babbage's many outspoken proposals. Subjects; Babbage, Charles 1791-1871 - Exposition of 1851.
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Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer
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ISBN 10: 019858170X
ISBN 13: 9780198581703
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Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Biography of the great inventor that looks beyond his work with early 'computers' and calculating engines, to his rich social life and influence on society, With b/w images. DJ is price-clipped. Some shelf-wear and bumping to DJ. A small mark within. Content otherwise clean and tight. Very good overall. Seller Inventory # 006589
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Charles Babbage, pioneer of the computer
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Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer
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Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer
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Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer Hyman, Anthony
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Charles Babbage- Pioneer of the Computer
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st English Edition. Biography of the pioneer in the development of computing machines. 16 plates, frontis portrait of Babbage. Save for a modest ownership signiture, a Near Fine copy, in Near Fine, Un-Clipped D. J. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 3747
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Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer
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Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1982 Oxford UK 1st edition, Near Fine/VG+ DJ in Mylar, dustjacket has half-inch tear at rear corner- in new Mylar with price intact, no markings found, not a remainder, small stain on foreedge of textblock. Seller Inventory # g218
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