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The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to ...
Doron SwadeTHE DIFFERENCE ENGINE Doron Swade is Assistant Director and Head of Collections at the Science Museum in London. He is an engineer and a historian of technology, and a leading authority on the life and work of Charles Babbage.
The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build ...
Doron SwadeThe story of his lifelong bid to construct such a machine is a triumph of human ingenuity, will and imagination.
Charles Babbage and his calculating engines
Doron SwadeThis book has been prepared as part of the 1991 Babbage celebration, an occasion when the Science Museum's own Babbage artefacts and archives were supplements with additional material from overseas for a special Bicentenary Exhibition.
History of Computing: Software Issues: International ...
PreviewJoachim Fischer Kulturstiftung der Länder Kurfürstendamm 102 10711 Berlin Germany E-mail: kslG'kulturstiftung.de Introduction In this paper, Doron Swade has given an excellent overview of almost every aspect that might come up in ...
Mathematics in Victorian Britain
Preview3, 109. For details of the Difference Engine No. 2 halting mechanism, see Doron Swade, 'Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2: technical description', Science Museum Papers in the History of Technology (1996), 44–45. Works, Vol.
Making the History of Computing Relevant: IFIP WG 9.7 ...
PreviewThe story of how it was founded is recorded in two early issues of Resurrection [2] , the bulletin of the CCS. Nick Enticknap, the first Editor of Resurrection, recounts in the first issue of Resurrection that the CCS “is the brainchild of Doron Swade, ...
Museums of Modern Science : Nobel Symposium 112
More editionsNew York Review of Books, 29 September 1988, pp. 63-69. 3. Doron Swade, " Napoleon's waistcoat button: modern artifacts and museum culture." In Museum collecting policies in modern science and technology (London: Science Museum, ...
Law and Government in Israel
Gideon DoronKenneth Shepsle and Mark Bonchek, Analyzing Politics, New York, 1997; Gideon Doron and Itai Sened, Political Bargaining, London, 2001. Robert Aumann and Michael Maschler, Repeated Games with Incomplete Information, Cambridge, ...
New Media, Politics and Society in Israel
PreviewHarrisand Doron, “Assessing theElectoral Reform of1992”;Asher Arian,“The Israeli Electionfor Prime Minister andtheKnesset, 1996,” ElectoralStudies 15( 1996): 570–75; DonPeretz and Gideon Doron, “Israel's 1996 Elections: ASecond Political ...
Communicating Security: Civil-Military Relations in Israel
PreviewSee Martin Sherman and Gideon Doron, 'War and Peace as Rational Choice in the Middle East', in Zeev Maoz (ed.), Regional Security in the Middle East, London, 1997, pp. 72—102. . Doron, To Decide and to Implement. . See Immanuel Kant ...
Conceptual History in the European Space
PreviewHanna Orsolya Vincze, The Politics of Translation and Transmission: Basilikon Doron in Hungarian Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012). See also Hanna Orsolya Vincze, 'The Fortunes of Basilikon Doron', in Janet ...
The True Law of Free Monarchies: And, Basilikon Doron
James I (King of England)And, Basilikon Doron James I (King of England), Victoria University (Toronto, Ont. ). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier. Tudor. and. Stuart. Texts. Series editors DAVID GALBRAITH Department of ...
Strong Asymptotics for Extremal Polynomials Associated with ...
Doron S. Lubinsky0. The results are consequences of a strengthened form of the following assertion: Given 0 p, f Lp ( ) and a certain sequence of positive numbers associated with Q(x), there exist polynomials Pn of degree at most n, n = 1,2,3..., such that ...
Public Policy and Electoral Reform: The Case of Israel
Gideon DoronThe book brings into question the actual influence voters have over electoral outcomes by probing various scenarios.
Term Limits
Gideon DoronThis book, divided in two parts, presents an overview and detailed analysis of the origins and effects of the movement. The first part analyzes the political concept of term limits and its theoretical foundations.
Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
Eric A. MeyerSo my thanks, respect, and gratitude to Bob Clary, Marcio Galli, Katsuhiko Momoi , Chris Nails, Tristan Nitot, Arun Ranganathan, Doron Rosenberg, and Susie Wyshak — comrades all. To Dave, thank you for all the years of laughter and ...
Afroasiatic Studies in Memory of Robert Hetzron: Proceedings ...
Preview... Sebastian Gunther, Michael Carter, and Usama Soltan for clarifying a number of issues regarding the Arabic data; I am also appreciative of the feedback provided by Elizabeth Cowper, Edit Doron, and Janne Bondi Johannessen. All opinion ...
Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century ...
Su Fang NgJames Doelman argues James's majesty suffered from overexposure when his English subjects, quoting fromBasilicon Doron, appropriated his words in attempts to advise and to govern the king: “his pageantry of the written word raised ...
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