03524nam 22006135 450 991015164220332120200424112023.010.7208/9780226411637(CKB)3710000000948616(MiAaPQ)EBC4519382(StDuBDS)EDZ0001588542(DE-B1597)523351(OCoLC)963935713(DE-B1597)9780226411637(EXLCZ)99371000000094861620200424h20162016 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierReckoning with Matter Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage /Matthew L. JonesChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]©20161 online resource (340 pages)Previously issued in print: 2016.Print version : 9780226411460 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Carrying Tens: Pascal, Morland, and the Challenge of Machine Calculation -- 2. Artisans and Their Philosophers: Leibniz and Hooke Coordinate Minds, Metal, and Wood -- 3. Improvement for Profit: Calculating Machines and the Prehistory of Intellectual Property -- 4. Reinventing the Wheel: Emulation in the European Enlightenment -- 5. Teething Problems: Charles Stanhope and the Coordination of Technical Knowledge from Geneva to Kent -- 6. Calculating Machines, Creativity, and Humility from Leibniz to Turing -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- IndexFrom Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines. All failed-but that does not mean we cannot learn from the trail of ideas, correspondence, machines, and arguments they left behind. In Reckoning with Matter, Matthew L. Jones draws on the remarkably extensive and well-preserved records of the quest to explore the concrete processes involved in imagining, elaborating, testing, and building calculating machines. He explores the writings of philosophers, engineers, and craftspeople, showing how they thought about technical novelty, their distinctive areas of expertise, and ways they could coordinate their efforts. In doing so, Jones argues that the conceptions of creativity and making they exhibited are often more incisive-and more honest-than those that dominate our current legal, political, and aesthetic culture. CalculatorsHistoryComputersHistoryTechnologyHistoryBlaise Pascal.Charles Babbage.Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.artisanal knowledge.calculating machines.eighteenth century.intellectual property.nineteenth century.seventeenth century.CalculatorsHistory.ComputersHistory.TechnologyHistory.510.284Jones Matthew L., authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut921848DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910151642203321Reckoning with Matter2068340UNINA