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BABBAGE, CHARLES (1792-1871). THE NINTH BRIDGEWATER TREATISE. A FRAGMENT. LONDON: R. CLAY FOR JOHN MURRAY, 1837.
8O (214 X 133 MM). WOOD-ENGRAVED TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS. CONTEMPORARY HALF SHEEP, MARBLED SIDES, GILT SPINE, MOROCCO LETTERING PIECES (SLIGHT WEAR).
FIRST EDITION. Babbage's only philosophical work was written in continuation of a series funded by the Earl of Bridgewater to publish arguments in favor of natural religion. Drawing on his experience in developing a calculating machine, Babbage devised "a novel picture of God whose undeviating law would be consistent both with successive special creations and with miracles ... Babbage saw God as a being of science and programmer who defined the entire future of the universe at the time of the Creation as a sort of infinite set of programs" (A. Hyman, Charles Babbage, Princeton 1982, pp. 137-138). Norman 94.
[With]:
BABBAGE, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. London: R. Clay for Charles Knight, 1832. 8o (171 x 104 mm). Engraved title page by J. Bate. (chipped, trimmed and laid down). Original plum moir cloth (spine faded, resewn, recased, endpapers renewed). FIRST EDITION. Einaudi 224; Goldsmith 27346; Kress C.3013; Norman 93. (2)
8O (214 X 133 MM). WOOD-ENGRAVED TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS. CONTEMPORARY HALF SHEEP, MARBLED SIDES, GILT SPINE, MOROCCO LETTERING PIECES (SLIGHT WEAR).
FIRST EDITION. Babbage's only philosophical work was written in continuation of a series funded by the Earl of Bridgewater to publish arguments in favor of natural religion. Drawing on his experience in developing a calculating machine, Babbage devised "a novel picture of God whose undeviating law would be consistent both with successive special creations and with miracles ... Babbage saw God as a being of science and programmer who defined the entire future of the universe at the time of the Creation as a sort of infinite set of programs" (A. Hyman, Charles Babbage, Princeton 1982, pp. 137-138). Norman 94.
[With]:
BABBAGE, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. London: R. Clay for Charles Knight, 1832. 8o (171 x 104 mm). Engraved title page by J. Bate. (chipped, trimmed and laid down). Original plum moir cloth (spine faded, resewn, recased, endpapers renewed). FIRST EDITION. Einaudi 224; Goldsmith 27346; Kress C.3013; Norman 93. (2)