The calculating engine

by Charles Babbage

THE
EDINBURGH REVIEW,

JULY, 1834.

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No. CXX.

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THE CALCULATING ENGINE

BY

CHARLES BABBAGE

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.