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"Reckoning with Matter" tells the story of early modern European calculating machines, from the early attempts of Blaise Pascal in the 1640s through Charles Babbage s efforts of the 1820s to 40s. All failed spectacularly. By exploring these failed technologies, Matthew L. Jones tracks diverse forms of technical life different social arrangements of practitioners, different legal conceptions of the ownership of work and ideas, and different philosophical conceptions of knowledge and skill. Philos

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Author

Jones, Matthew Laurence

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226411460

Category

computer science

Subjects

Technology, Science, History

Updated

2026-03-25