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Introduction -- Carrying tens : Pascal, Morland, and the challenge of machine calculation -- First carry ; Babbage and Clement mechanize table making -- Artisans and their philosophers : Leibniz and Hooke coordinate minds, metal, and wood -- Second carry : Babbage gets funded -- Improvement for profit : calculating machines and the prehistory of intellectual property -- Third carry : Babbage claims his property -- Reinventing the wheel : emulation in the European enlightenment -- Fourth carry : Babbage confronts prior art -- Teething problems : Charles Stanhope and the coordination of technical knowledge from Geneva to Kent -- Fifth carry : Babbage's collaborators emulate -- Calculating machines, creativity, and humility from Leibniz to Turning -- Final carry : epilogue. |
