Author:Charles Babbage

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Charles Babbage (1791–1871)

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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

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.