The Works of Charles Babbage


Editor: Martin Campbell-Kelly, with a foreword by I Bernard Cohen


The Pickering Masters
11 Volume Set: 2700pp: 1989
978 1 85196 005 7: 234x156mm: £695.00

The only collected edition containing all the known published writings, including some newly-discovered pieces.

Includes work directly influenced by Babbage and essential to Babbage scholarship.

  • Mathematical work edited, corrected and reset for today's reader
  • Bibliography of works cited in the text provides a unique insight into Babbage's sources
  • Comprehensive general index allows access to all Babbage's work for the first time

Reviews

‘a fine achievement’
– Simon Schaffer, The Times Literary Supplement

‘A must for every university library.’
– The Guardian

‘These volumes are a must for any self-respecting library aiming to serve the interests of science and technology. There is something in them for the mathematician, the computer scientist, the economist, the historian, the manufacturer, the engineer and the politician. Once these volumes are put on the shelves they will be read.’
– Anthony Anderson, New Scientist

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