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Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Charles Babbage · Engineering_and_Technology · 72 章

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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Passages from the Life of a Philosopher PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER, by Charles Babbage Chapter 3 DEDICATION.PREFACE.CONTENTS.CHAPTER I. MY ANCESTORS.CHAPTER II. CHILDHOOD.Earliest Recollections.CHAPTER III. BOYHOOD.CHAPTER IV. CAMBRIDGE.CHAPTER V. DIFFERENCE ENGINE NO. 1.Explanation of the Difference Engine.Chapter 14 Of the Mechanical Arrangements necessary for computing Tables by the Method of Differences.Description of the existing portion of Difference Engine No. 1.CHAPTER VI.CHAPTER VII. DIFFERENCE ENGINE NO. II.CHAPTER VIII. OF THE ANALYTICAL ENGINE.CHAPTER IX. OF THE MECHANICAL NOTATION.Circumstances connected with the Exhibition of the Difference Engine No. 1 in the International Exhibition of 1862.List of Mechanical Notations proposed to be Lent for the Exhibition.CHAPTER XI. THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.CHAPTER XII. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.CHAPTER XIII. RECOLLECTIONS OF WOLLASTON, DAVY, AND ROGERS.The Thaumatrope.CHAPTER XIV. RECOLLECTIONS OF LAPLACE, BIOT, AND HUMBOLDT.Alexander Humboldt.Of the Buonaparte Family.CHAPTER XV. EXPERIENCE BY WATER.Baked in an Oven.A Living Volcano.Hot Springs.Earthquakes.Fire Damp.CHAPTER XVII. EXPERIENCE AMONGST WORKMEN.CHAPTER XVIII. PICKING LOCKS AND DECIPHERING.Deciphering.CHAPTER XIX. EXPERIENCE IN ST. GILES’S.CHAPTER XX. THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE.CHAPTER XXI. ELECTIONEERING EXPERIENCE.CHAPTER XXII. SCENE FROM A NEW AFTER-PIECE, CALLED “Politics and Poetry;” or, “The Decline of Science.”ACT I.Chapter 44 ACT II.CHAPTER XXIII. EXPERIENCE AT COURTS.CHAPTER XXIV. EXPERIENCE AT COURTS.CHAPTER XXV. RAILWAYS.CHAPTER XXVI. STREET NUISANCES.CHAPTER XXVII. WIT.CHAPTER XXVIII. HINTS FOR TRAVELLERS.CHAPTER XXIX. MIRACLES.CHAPTER XXX. RELIGION.CHAPTER XXXI. A VISION.Ancient Music.Calculus of Functions.Miracles.Of the Causes of the Transformation of Condensed Snow into Transparent Ice.Book and Parcel Post.Explanation of the Cause of Magnetic and Electric Rotations.Occulting Lights.Sun Signals.Greenwich Time Signals.Geological Theory of Isothermal Surfaces.Games of Skill.Problem of the Three Magnetic Bodies.Commissioners of Railways.CHAPTER XXXVI. AGREEABLE RECOLLECTIONS.Conclusion.MIRACLES. Note (A), page 394.ADDITION TO THE CHAPTER ON RAILROADS.THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE