LEADER 03524nam 22006135 450 001 9910151642203321 005 20200424112023.0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226411637 035 $a(CKB)3710000000948616 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4519382 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001588542 035 $a(DE-B1597)523351 035 $a(OCoLC)963935713 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226411637 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000948616 100 $a20200424h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aReckoning with Matter $eCalculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage /$fMatthew L. Jones 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (340 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 08$aPrint version : 9780226411460 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Carrying Tens: Pascal, Morland, and the Challenge of Machine Calculation -- $t2. Artisans and Their Philosophers: Leibniz and Hooke Coordinate Minds, Metal, and Wood -- $t3. Improvement for Profit: Calculating Machines and the Prehistory of Intellectual Property -- $t4. Reinventing the Wheel: Emulation in the European Enlightenment -- $t5. Teething Problems: Charles Stanhope and the Coordination of Technical Knowledge from Geneva to Kent -- $t6. Calculating Machines, Creativity, and Humility from Leibniz to Turing -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tConventions -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aFrom 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. 606 $aCalculators$xHistory 606 $aComputers$xHistory 606 $aTechnology$xHistory 610 $aBlaise Pascal. 610 $aCharles Babbage. 610 $aCharles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope. 610 $aGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. 610 $aartisanal knowledge. 610 $acalculating machines. 610 $aeighteenth century. 610 $aintellectual property. 610 $anineteenth century. 610 $aseventeenth century. 615 0$aCalculators$xHistory. 615 0$aComputers$xHistory. 615 0$aTechnology$xHistory. 676 $a510.284 700 $aJones$b Matthew L., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0921848 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910151642203321 996 $aReckoning with Matter$92068340 997 $aUNINA