Author:Charles Babbage

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Charles Babbage (1791–1871)

An English mathematician, philosopher, and mechanical engineer who originated the idea of a programmable computer.

Charles Babbage

Works

• Tables of Logarithms (1826)
• Comparative View of the Various Institutions for the Assurance of Lives (1826)
• Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, Project Gutenberg (1830)
• On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, Project Gutenberg (1834) (book scan)
• Ninth Bridgewater Treatise (1837) (book scan)
• The Exposition of 1851 (1851) (book scan)
• Thoughts on the principles of taxation, with reference to a property tax, and its exceptions (1851) (book scan)
• Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864) (book scan)

Works about Babbage

• Auszug aus einem Briefe des Herrn Baily an den Herausgeber (1823), by Francis Baily appearing in Astronomische Nachrichten (42)
• On Mr. Babbage's new machine for calculating and printing mathematical and astronomical tables (1823), by Francis Baily appearing in Astronomische Nachrichten (46)
• The Late Mr. Charles Babbage, F.R.S., Obituary appearing in The Times
• “Babbage, Charles” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• "Babbage, Charles," by Agnes Mary Clerke in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols..

• Henry Prevost Babbage's obituary in The Times. page scan