A set of 11 volumes which contains all the known works of Charles Babbage, who has been described as the "pioneer of the computer". His mathematical, scientific and engineering work is highly significant for its original approach to problem-solving and is reset for today's reader.
Volume
2. The Difference Engine and table making SECTION A I A note
respecting the application of machinery to the calculation of astronomical
tables (1822) II A letter to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart, President of the Royal
Society, on the application of machinery to the purpose of calculating and
printing mathematical tables (1822) III The science of number reduced to
mechanism (1822) IV Observations on the application of machinery to the
computation of mathematical tables (1822) V On the theoretical principles of
the machinery for calculating tables (1823) VI On Mr Babbages new machine
for calculating and printing mathematical and astronomical tables, by F.
Baily (1823) VII Address on presenting the gold medal of the Astronomical
Society to Charles Babbage, by H. T. Colebrooke (1825) VIII On the
determination of the general term of a new class of infinite series (1826) IX
Notice respecting some errors common to many tables of logarithms (1827) X
Extracts from Table of logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 108,000
(1827) XI Report of the Royal Society Babbage Engine Committee, by J. F. W.
Herschel (1829) XII Preface to Specimen of logarithmic tables printed with
different coloured inks on variously coloured papers (1831) XIII Babbages
calculating engine, by D. Lardner (1834) XIV Observations addressed, at the
last anniversary, to the President and Fellows of the Royal Society, after
the delivery of the medals (1856) XV Extracts from Specimens of tables
calculated, stereo-moulded and printed by machinery, Anon (1857) XVI
Babbages calculating machine; or Difference Engine, by B. H. Babbage (1872)
Charles Babbage, Martin Campbell-Kelly
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