THE
EDINBURGH REVIEW.
JULY, 1834.
No. CXX.
Art I.—1. Letter to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. P.R.S., on the application of Machinery to Calculate and Print Mathematical Tables. By Charles Babbage, Esq. F.R.S.4to. Printed by order of the House of Commons.
2. On the Application of Machinery to the Calculation of Astronomical and Mathematical Tables. By Charles Babbage, Esq. Memoirs Astron. Soc. Vol. I. Part 2. London: 1822.
3. Address to the Astronomical Society, by Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq. F.R.S. President, on presenting the first gold medal of the Society to Charles Babbage, Esq. for the invention of the Calculating Engine.Memoirs Astron. Soc. Vol. I. Part 2. London: 1822.
4. On the determination of the General Term of a new Class of Infinite Series.By Charles Babbage, Esq.Transactions Camb. Phil. Soc. Cambridge: 1824.
5. On Errors common to many Tables of Logarithms.By Charles Babbage, Esq. Memoirs Astron. Soc. London: 1827.
6. On a Method of Expressing by Signs the Action of Machinery.By Charles Babbage, Esq. Phil. Trans. London: 1826.
7. Report by the Committee appointed by the Council of the Royal Society to consider the subject referred to in a Communication received by them from the Treasury, respecting Mr Babbage's Calculating Engine, and to report thereupon. London: 1829.
There is no position in society more enviable than that of the few who unite a moderate independence with high intellectual qualities. Liberated from the necessity of seeking their support by a profession, they are unfettered by its restraints, and are enabled to direct the powers of their minds, and to concentrate
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