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Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

by Charles Babbage

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Contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Preface
  3. Chapter I. My Ancestors
  4. Chapter II. Childhood
  5. Chapter III. Boyhood
  6. Chapter IV. Cambridge
  7. Chapter V. Difference Engine No. 1
  8. Chapter VI
  9. Chapter VII. Difference Engine No. II
  10. Chapter VIII. Of the Analytical Engine
  11. Chapter IX. Of the Mechanical Notation
  12. Chapter X. The Exhibition of 1862
  13. Chapter XI. The Late Prince Consort
  14. Chapter XII. Recollections of the Duke of Wellington
  15. Chapter XIII. Recollections of Wollaston, Davy, and Rogers
  16. Chapter XIV. Recollections of Laplace, Biot, and Humboldt
  17. Chapter XV. Experience by Water
  18. Chapter XVI. Experience by Fire
  19. Chapter XVII. Experience Amongst Workmen
  20. Chapter XVIII. Picking Locks and Deciphering
  21. Chapter XIX. Experience in St. Giles’s
  22. Chapter XX. Theatrical Experience
  23. Chapter XXI. Electioneering Experience
  24. Chapter XXII. Scene from A New After-Piece, Called “ Politics and Poetry ;” or , “ The Decline of Science .”
  25. Chapter XXIII. Experience at Courts
  26. Chapter XXIV. Experience at Courts
  27. Chapter XXV. Railways
  28. Chapter XXVI. Street Nuisances
  29. Chapter XXVII. Wit
  30. Chapter XXVIII. Hints for Travellers
  31. Chapter XXIX. Miracles
  32. Chapter XXX. Religion
  33. Chapter XXXI. A Vision
  34. Chapter XXXII. Various Reminiscences
  35. Chapter XXXIII. The Author’s Contributions to Human Knowledge
  36. Chapter XXXIV. The Author’s Further Contributions to Human Knowledge
  37. Chapter XXXV. Results of Science
  38. Chapter XXXVI. Agreeable Recollections
  39. Conclusion
  40. Appendix
  41. List of Mr. Babbage’s Printed Papers

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