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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
1 Carrying Tens: Pascal, Morland, and the Challenge of Machine Calculation
FIRST CARRY Babbage and Clement Mechanize Table Making
2 Artisans and Their Philosophers: Leibniz and Hooke Coordinate Minds, Metal, and Wood
SECOND CARRY Babbage Gets Funded
3 Improvement for Profit: Calculating Machines and the Prehistory of Intellectual Property
THIRD CARRY Babbage Claims His Property
4 Reinventing the Wheel: Emulation in the European Enlightenment
FOURTH CARRY Babbage Confronts Prior Art
5 Teething Problems: Charles Stanhope and the Coordination of Technical Knowledge from Geneva to Kent
FIFTH CARRY Babbage’s Collaborators Emulate
6 Calculating Machines, Creativity, and Humility from Leibniz to Turing
FINAL CARRY Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Conventions
Abbreviations
Notes
References
Index
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