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Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. (From Wikipedia) More about Charles Babbage:
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Books by Charles Babbage Books about Charles Babbage: Filed under: Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Passages From the Life of a Philosopher (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864), by Charles Babbage- Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, Esq., With Notes Upon the Memoir, by Luigi Federico Menabrea and Ada King Lovelace
2 additional books about Charles Babbage in the extended shelves:Books by Charles Babbage: - Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: The Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: A Letter to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., President of the Royal Society, etc., etc., on the Application of Machinery to the Purpose of Calculating and Printing Mathematical Tables (London: J. Booth; and Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1822)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise: A Fragment (HTML at Victorian Web)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (London: J, Murray, 1846) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Passages From the Life of a Philosopher (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes (Gutenberg text)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Thoughts on the Principles of Taxation, With Reference to a Property Tax and Its Exceptions (London: J. Murray, 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
Additional books by Charles Babbage in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: The calculating engine (Gutenberg ebook)- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: A comparative view of the various institutions for the assurance of lives. (J. Mawman, 1826) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Économie des machines et des manufactures d'aprés l'ouvrage anglais de Ch. Babbage ... (Librairie du dictionnaire des arts et manufactures, 1880), also by Charles Pierre Lefebvre de Laboulaye (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Economy of manufactures (C. Knight, 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: An elementary treatise on the differential and integral calculus (Printed by J. Smith for J. Deighton and sons, 1816), also by S. F. Lacroix, John F. W. Herschel, and George Peacock (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: An essay towards the calculus of functions (W. Bulmer, 1815) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: An examination ofsome questions connected with games of chance. (Academic Reprints, 1953) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Examples of the solutions of functional equations (s.n., 1820) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: The exposition of 1851; : or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England. (J. Murray, 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: The Exposition of 1851; or, views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England. (Gregg International, 1969) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: The exposition of 1851 ; or, Views of the industry, the science and the government of England. (J. Murray, 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Geometry and faith : a fragmentary supplement to the ninth Bridgewater treatise (G.P. Putnam, 1874), also by Thomas Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: A letter to the Board of Visitors of the Greenwich Royal Observatory in reply to the calumnies of Mr. Babbage at their meeting in June 1853, and in his book entitled The exposition of 1851 (Printed by G. Barclay, 1860), also by R. Sheepshanks and James South (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Mr. Babbage on electrical and magnetic rotations (Printed by W. Nicol, Cleveland-Row, St. James's, 1826), also by William Nicol (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: The ninth Bridgewater treatise. A fragment. (J. Murray, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Observations on the temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli near Naples; with an attempt to explain the causes of the frequent elevation and depression of large portions of the earth's surface in remote periods, and to prove that those causes continue in action at the present time. With a supplement. Conjectures on the physical condition of the surface of the moon. ([London], 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: On the economy of machinery and manufactures. (Augustus M. Kelley, 1963) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: On the economy of machinery and manufactures. (C. Knight, 1835) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: On the economy of machinery and manufactures (J. Murray, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: On the economy of machinery and manufactures (London :, 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: On the economy of machinery and manufactures. (Carey & Lea, 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: On the economy of machinery and manufactures (Charles Knight, 1835) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: On the economy of machinery and manufactures (C. Knight, 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: On the economy of manufactures. (C. Knight, 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Reflections on the decline of science in England, and on some of its causes (B. Fellowes [etc.], 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Science economique des manufactures traduite de l'anglais par M. Isoard. (Doney-Dupré, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Scriptores optici : or A collection of tracts relating to optics. (Printed by Wilks, 1823), also by Francis Maseres (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Table of logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 108000 (Printed for J. Mawman, 1827) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Table of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000 (E. & F. N. Spon;, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Table of logarithms of the natural numbers : from 1 to 108000 (E. & F.N. Spon, 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 108000. (B. Fellowes, 1831) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108000 (Printed by William Clowes, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Thoughts on the principles of taxation, with reference to a property tax, and its exceptions. (J. Murray, 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Traité sur l'économie des machines et des manufactures (Louis Hauman et Comp., éditeurs, 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871: Ueber maschinen- und fabrikenwesen ... (Stuhr, 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
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![Obituary portrait of Charles Babbage (1791-1871) published in a newspaper. This portrait was derived from a photograph of Babbage taken at the Fourth International Statistical Congress which took place in London in July 1860.[1]
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