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Brown hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Ex lib. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xcvi, 988pp, 116pp, 32pp + plates. 5 b/w plates (1 fold-out). Includes a report by George Bernard Shaw on 'The Transition to Social Democracy'. Reports by virtually all the eminent scientists of the age: Babbage, H Davey, William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), George Francis FitzGerald, John Joly, Oliver Lodge, G.H. Darwin, etc., etc., A wonderful resource for Nineteenth century science. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas.

Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Wear to spine ends. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). xcvi, 988pp, 116pp, 32pp + plates. 5 b/w plates (1 fold-out). Includes a report by George Bernard Shaw on 'The Transition to Social Democracy'. Reports by virtually all the eminent scientists of the age: Babbage, H Davey, William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), George Francis FitzGerald, John Joly, Oliver Lodge, G.H. Darwin, etc., etc., A wonderful resource for Nineteenth century science. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. Brown/gilt hardback cloth cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. BABBAGE, H.P., Major-General. "Babbage Analytical Engine." In Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol 70 No 6 April 8, 1910, pp 517-519, (plus an errata on p. 645) offered in the entire volume 70 of 8pp+672pp (plus pp143-181). Bound in a tidy grey cloth. Near-fine copy. This is Charles Babbage's son explaining his attempts to fund and create a working model of his father's famous analytical engine. __+__ Also in this volume: George Darwin, On certain families of periodic orbits", pp 108-143; Ernest W. Brown, "On an additin to the theoretical secular acceleration of the Moon's mean motion", pp 143-176. F.W. Dyson, "the systematic motions of the stars shown in the cross proper motions of the Bradley stars", pp 416-429; Percival Lowell, "Mars", p. 652 with one full plate.__+__ See: Babbage, C. "On the Mathematical Powers of the Calculating Engine, 1837," B. Randell, ed., The Origins of Digital Computers. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1973. H.P. Babbage, Babbage's Calculating Engines. London: E. and F.N. Spon, 1889. (The Menabrea/Lovelace paper appears in Annals, vol. 4, no. 3, July 1982.) A.G. Bromley, "The Mechanism of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine circa 1838," Univ. of Sydney, Basser Department of Computer Science Technical Report no. 166, 39 pp., 1980.