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Reckoning with Matter
- Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage
Engelsk Hardback
Reckoning with Matter
- Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage
Engelsk Hardback

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From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines. All failed but that doesn't mean we can't learn from the trail of ideas, correspondence, machines, and arguments they left behind. In Reckoning with Matter, Matthew Jones draws on the remarkably extensive and well-preserved records of the quest to explore the concrete processes involved in imagining, elaborating, testing, and building calculating machines. He explores the writings of philosophers, engineers, and craftspeople, showing how they thought about technical novelty, their distinctive areas of expertise, and ways they could coordinate their efforts, to argue that the conceptions of creativity and making they exhibited are often more incisive and more honest than those that dominate our current legal, political, and aesthetic culture.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9780226411460
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022641146X
Udg. Dato:
29 nov 2016
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
164mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
29 nov 2016
Forfatter(e):
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