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	Charles Babbage
		Charles Babbage was born in Devonshire in 1791.
		Babbage argued that miracles were not, as Hume write, violations of laws of nature, but could exist in a mechanistic world.
		Babbage's unflagging fascination with statistics occasionally overwhelmed him, as is seen in the animation of his Smithsonian proposal.
	ei.cs.vt.edu /~history/Babbage.html (3782 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Babbage (crater)
		Babbage is an ancient lunar crater that is located near the northwest limb of the Moon.
		It is attached to the southeastern rim of the prominent Pythagoras crater.
		The northeast rim of this satellite crater is missing, and it forms a bay on the perimeter of the Babbage crater.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Babbage_(crater) (280 words)

	About Facts Net
		Babbage was not always the serious student when he finally was enrolled in school, but he did have a desire to learn.
		Babbage got the idea that after his machine produced an answer, he could then have it entered through another gear train and this would be the memory.
		Babbage met Lady Lovelace, she was the daughter of Lord Byron the famous poet and a mathematical genius.
	aboutfacts.net /People24.htm (896 words)

	Charles Babbage Page
		Babbage argued that miracles were not violations of laws of nature, but could exist in a mechanistic world.
		Babbage later tried to verify this tale, but found his steward 'had been living riotously at some public-house in another quarter, and had been continually drunk'.
		Babbage disliked Plato, according to his friend Wilmot Buxton, because of Plato's condemnation of Archytas, 'who had constructed machines of extraordinary power on mathematical principles'.
	tergestesoft.com /~eddysworld/babbage.htm (4332 words)

	Babbage biography
		Woodhouse was one of Babbage's teachers at Cambridge yet he seems to have taken no part in the Society that Babbage was to set up to try to bring the modern continental mathematics to Cambridge.
		Babbage had moved from Trinity College to Peterhouse and it was from that College that he graduated with a B.A. in 1814.
		Babbage was clearly strongly influenced by de Prony's major undertaking for the French Government of producing logarithmic and trigonometric tables with teams of people to carry out the calculations.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Babbage.html (2878 words)

	Charles Babbage at AllExperts
		From 1828 to 1839 Babbage was Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge.
		Babbage's discovery was used to aid English military campaigns, and was not published until several years later; as a result credit for the development was instead given to Friedrich Kasiski, who made the same discovery some years after Babbage.
		Babbage once counted all the broken panes of glass of a factory, publishing in 1857 a "Table of the Relative Frequency of the Causes of Breakage of Plate Glass Windows": 14 of 464 were caused by "drunken men, women or boys".
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/ch/charles_babbage.htm (1920 words)

	Today in Technology History - Oct 18
		Babbage was once a darling of London's intellectual society, regularly holding parties at his home.
		One story, possibly apocryphal, tells that as Babbage lay on his deathbed, a crowd of organ grinders got their revenge by coming to his window to give the grumpy mathematician a noisy and unwelcome send-off.
		Babbage died on October 18, 1871, almost making it to his eightieth birthday "in spite of organ-grinding persecutions," according to his obituary in the London Times.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2002/oct18.htm (378 words)

	Charles Babbage Bio, Pictures, News and RSS Feeds at BlinkBits. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Babbage presented a model of what he called a difference engine to the Royal Astronomical Society on June 14, 1822 and in a paper entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables."1 It calculated polynomials using a numerical method called the differences method.
		Babbage's discovery was used to aid English military campaigns, and was not published until several years later; as a result credit for the development was instead given to Friedrich Kasiski, who made the same discovery some years after Babbage.
		Babbage also invented the pilot (also called a cow-catcher), the metal frame attached to the front of locomotives that clears the tracks of obstacles in 1838.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/Charles_Babbage (2242 words)

	Babbage
		Babbage's efforts to realize "operations research" led to "first class mail." Babbage went against the "common sense" of his times: he demonstrated the cost of collecting and stamping a letter for different sums according to the distance it traveled cost more in time, labor, and money than a fixed price stamp.
		Babbage built a device to study the retina of the eye, but Helmholtz's invention four years later was credited as the original opthalmoscope.
		Babbage's "difference and analytical engines" were based on the rule of finite differences for solving complex equations without multiplying or dividing, but by repeated addition.
	members.tripod.com /JWSupp/newpage21.htm (721 words)

	Charles Babbage Summary
		Babbage's Jacquard cards, as he referred to them, could provide instructions and data not only for the machine's mill, but for the store, a place where numbers were retained in memory for future use.
		Babbage had occasion to return to his idea of a computing machine about 1820, when as a member of a learned society, he was given the task of verifying tables of astronomical data.
		Babbage is often regarded as the "father of computing." In 1823, with financial support from the British government, he began work on what he called the Difference Engine, a steam-powered machine that would calculate mathematical tables correct to twenty decimal places.
	www.bookrags.com /Charles_Babbage (8147 words)

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		Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1791 in Teignmouth, Devonshire, U.K. He was known to some as the " The Father of Computing", for his contributions to the basic design of the computer through his "Analytical Machine".
		In 1908, after being preserved for 37 years in alcohol, Babbage's brain was dissected by: Sir Victor Horsely of The Royal Society.
		Babbage was an aesthete, but not atypical victorian one.
	warrensburg.k12.mo.us /math/babbage/matt.html (321 words)

	Inventor Charles Babbage Biography
		Babbage excelled in a variety of scientific and philosophical subjects though his present-day reputation rests largely on the invention and design of his vast mechanical calculating engines.
		Charles Babbage was born in London on December 26, 1791, the son of Benjamin Babbage, a London banker.
		Babbage is sometimes referred to as "father of computing." The Charles Babbage Foundation took his name to honor his intellectual contributions and their relation to modern computers.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/babbage.htm (3134 words)

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		IAU spelling changes pre 1982 8 craters whose spelling was changed prior to AW82 by the IAU but for which the changes were rejected by AW82 on the grounds that the older versions were more familiar and established in the literature.
		Note that the crater Greaves appears in AW82 under its correct name and also under its old name of Lick D. For non-craters, I have adopted the traditional nomenclature of AW82 in which the "Mons" is omitted for mountains Pico, Piton, R:umker, Gruithuisen Gamma/Delta, Hadley Delta, rather than the IAU version with Mons added.
		For the farside craters, lettered and otherwise, someone needs to go through the early farside maps and catalogs and identify the current names with early designations to see when features were first identified.
	www.planet4589.org /astro/lunar/Notes (988 words)

	History's Great Computer Eccentrics
		Babbage himself died at seventy-nine, with only one mourner besides the family group at the funeral.
		When Babbage returned from a speaking tour on the Continent, Ada translated the extensive notes taken by one Count Manabrea in Italy and composed an addendum nearly three times as long as the original text.
		In Babbage's computer, moving rods would decipher two sets of cards: one to designate the operations to be performed, the other for the variables on which they were to operate.
	www.atariarchives.org /deli/computer_eccentrics.php (3389 words)

	Introdução
		Babbage's efforts to realize "operations research" led to "first lass mail." Babbage went against the "commmon sense" of his times: he demonstrated the cost of collecting and stamping a letter for different sums according to the distance it traveled cost more in time, labor, and money than a fixed price stamp.
		Babbage built a device to study the retina of the eye, but Helmholtz's invention four years later was credited as the original opthalmoscope.
		Babbage's "difference and analytical engines" were based on the rule of finite differences for solving complex equations without multiplying or dividing, but by repeated addition.
	www.eee.ufg.br /~mcastro/disciplinas/so/apostila/cap1.html (7851 words)

	Digital Research - History of Computing
		Babbage realized that the human function of calculating even the most complex mathematical problems could often be broken down into a series of much smaller routines that a machine could potentially solve.
		Babbage called his machine an "analytical engine." Babbage's design for this device specified a parallel decimal computer operating on numbers (words) of 50 decimal digits.This device had a storage capacity (memory) of 1,000 such numbers.
		Babbage's analytical engine was never completed, but it was the first real model of the modern computer.
	www.digitalresearch.biz /HISTORY.HTM (5778 words)

	Lemelson-MIT Program
		Babbage helped found the Astronomical Society in 1820, and it was at that time that he first became interested in calculating machinery.
		Babbage, like Isaac Newton, believed there was a distinct order to the universe, that basically once all things were quantified, all things could be predicted.
		And today, the Charles Babbage Foundation is named in his honor in recognition of his intellectual contributions and their influence on the modern computing world.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/babbage.html (520 words)

	Babbage, Charles (1791-1871)
		Babbage was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society (1820) as well as the Statistical Society (1834).
		She assisted Babbage on some of his projects and he was very fond of her.
		On the moon a crater is named after Babbage, but when he was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery in London only the carriage of the Duchess of Somerset was there and he was ridiculed by the Times.
	www.xs4all.nl /~androom/biography/p000840.htm (424 words)

	Metanexus Institute
		Babbage envisioned mechanical devices with punched cards that would store information, and he came up with a contraption for this which is still in a Science Museum.
		Babbage occupied the Lucasian chair of Mathematics at Cambridge: once graced by Isaac Newton.
		Babbage was one of those scientists who seek reconciliation between science and religion.
	www.metanexus.net /metanexus_online/show_article.asp?5131 (1068 words)

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		Copernicus, the 58-mile (93-km) crater of the western plains, is one of the grandest features, with rays that splay out hundreds of miles in all directions.
		Thousands of new craters were discovered, but since there were only a few hundred famous dead astronomers whose names had not yet been used, the TAU had too few names.
		The crater named for Charles Darwin, the 19th-century English biologist and author of The Origin of Species, sits near the crater named after Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the French zoologist whose major accomplishment was the division of animal Life into the vertebrate and invertebrate categories.
	athene.as.arizona.edu /~lclose/teaching/a204/moon/Astron99.27.2.82.txt (1724 words)

	Observing The Sky » Moon: Day 12 - “Splicing Schiaparelli”
		To the north along the terminator, it was the “patchwork” crater of Babbage that caught one’s attention.
		To the white southern highlands, it is the giant crater of Schickard which promptly captures your attention at this time.
		Crater Mersenius now just has a thin crescent of shade against its east side interior, but compare it to nearby Vieta, whose interior is almost all dark, minus the top of its western wall.
	www.lpod.org /ots/?p=1494 (305 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Pythagoras (crater)
		Pythagoras is a prominent lunar impact crater located near the northwestern lunar limb.
		The crater has a oval appearance due to the oblique viewing angle.
		In the center is a sharp, moutainous rise with a double-peak that ascends 1.5 kilometers above the crater floor.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Pythagoras_(crater) (187 words)

	Babbage's: Information on boutique
		Charles Babbage (1791-1871) In the history of computers, Charles Babbage is often celebrated as the "first computer pioneer" and as a scientist and inventor who was 100 years ahead of his time.
		Babbage was unable to produce most of these parts to the degree of precision or tolerance needed...
		Babbage is known for his ideas about building an "analytical engine", the predecessor of the...
	electronicsboutique.menuboutique.com /babbages (916 words)

	Intro to PC Hardware - Online Classroom
		Babbage gained notoriety when he brought suit against London's organ grinders, in an attempt to have them banned from the city.
		When Babbage's suit was thrown out of court, organ grinders from all over London made a point to congregate nightly just underneath the hapless mathemetician's bedroom window.
		Babbage labored on his analytical engine from 1834 to 1842, but was unable to produce a machine with the capabilities he envisioned.
	www.ed2go.com /webcourses/demo/l1-1.html (527 words)

	Known to many as the “Father of Computing”, Charles Babbage a 19th century mathematician and inventor, was born ...
		Known to many as the “Father of Computing” but remembered as a practical scientist, Charles Babbage, a nineteenth century mathematician and inventor, was born with the knowledge to design a modern machine.
		Born December 26, 1792 in Teignmouth, Devonshire UK, the son of a London banker, Charles Babbage was afforded the luxury of private tutors, was well read and was accepted into Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1810.
		During his twenties, Babbage worked as a mathematician, was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816, and played a prominent part in the foundation of the Astronomical Society in 1820.
	www.mtsu.edu /~shjohnso/babbage.html (769 words)

	Babbage Lunar Ray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The ray was a moderately broad pie-shaped swath of light that illuminated the crater floor, which was not totally in darkness at the time.
		Babbage, -430,+860 - This is not a true crater, but is due to a fusion of two large rings.
		South of the centre of the southern component is a deep crater, A, with a smaller to the north-east, from which a slight ridge runs south-east, and is sometimes to be seen as a bright line amid the shadow.
	www.lunar-occultations.com /rlo/rays/babbage.htm (382 words)

	Natural History: Pozzuoli's Pillars Revisited
		Babbage became bolder near the end of his commentary, as he explicitly wondered "if those craters are indeed the remains of coral lagoon islands." To be fair, Babbage recognized the highly conjectural nature of his hypothesis:
		The preceding remarks are proposed entirely as speculations, whose chief use is to show that we are not entirely without principles from which we may reason on the physical structure of the moon, and that the volcanic theory is not the only one by which the phenomena could be explained.
		Babbage suggested that lunar craters might be coral atolls because he wished to confute their catastrophic interpretation as volcanic vents and mountains.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_4_108/ai_54574597/pg_3 (1196 words)

	Lunar Page 26 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The crater Pythagoras with its central peak is visible (see Lunar Page 25 for more details on Pythagoras) at the upper right.
		Babbage A is really obvious now inside the parent crater.
		The crater Harpalus (39km wide) is the large crater in Mare Frigoris.
	www.haven.k12.pa.us /orfft/lunar26.html (163 words)

	Observing the Sky
		More noticeable to its southwest is crater Vieta, a deep hole almost half illuminated within & a bright inside west wall.
		In the north along the terminator, it is irregular and old crater Babbage that is most noticeable - a gray floor surrounded by a high-relief bright rim.
		Crater South is very subtle and hard to discern nearby.
	www.observingthesky.org /index.php?m=20041025 (430 words)

	Oenopides (crater) at AllExperts
		Oenopides is a lunar crater that is located near the northwest limb of the Moon, and so appears foreshortened when viewed from the Earth.
		This formation lies due south of the prominent Pythagoras crater, and is attached to the southwest rim of 'Babbage E'.
		There are several small craters lying near the eastern rim, and the remainder of the floor is marked by tiny craterlets.
	en.allexperts.com /e/o/oe/oenopides_(crater).htm (303 words)

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