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See also:BABBAGE, See also:CHARLES (1792—1871) , See also:English mathematician and mechanician, was See also:born on the 26th of See also:December 1792 at See also:Teignmouth in See also:Devonshire. He was educated at a private school, and afterwards entered St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated in 1814. Though he did not compete in the mathematical tripos, he acquired a See also:great reputation at the university. In the years 1815—1817 he contributed three papers on the " Calculus of Functions " to the Philosophical Transactions, and in 1816 was made a See also:fellow of the Royal Society. Along with See also:Sir See also:John See also:Herschel and See also:George See also:Peacock he laboured to raise the See also:standard of mathematical instruction in See also:England, and especially endeavoured to supersede the Newtonian by the Leibnitzian notation in the infinitesimal calculus. Babbage's See also:attention seems to have been very See also:early See also:drawn to the number and importance of the errors introduced into astronomical and other calculations through inaccuracies in the computation of tables. He contributed to the Royal Society some notices on the relation between notation and mechanism; and in 1822, in a See also:letter to Sir H. See also:Davy on the application of machinery to the calculation and See also:printing of mathematical tables, he discussed the principles of a calculating See also:engine, to the construction of which he devoted many years of his See also:life. See also:Government was. induced to See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant its aid, and the inventor himself spent a portion of his private See also:fortune in the See also:prosecution of his undertaking. He travelled through several of the countries of See also:Europe, examining different systems of machinery; and some of the results of his investigations were published in the admirable little See also:work, See also:Economy of See also:Machines and Manufactures (1834). The great calculating engine was never completed; the constructor apparently desired to adopt a new principle when the first specimen was nearly See also:complete, to make it not a difference but an See also:analytical engine, and the government declined to accept the further See also:risk (see CALCULATING MACHINES). From 1828 to 1839 Babbage was Lucasian See also:professor of See also:mathematics at Cambridge. He contributed largely to several scientific See also:periodicals, and was instrumental in See also:founding the Astronomical (182o) and Statistical (1834) See also:Societies. He only once endeavoured to enter public life, when, in 1832, he stood unsuccessfully for the See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:Finsbury. During the later years of his life he resided in See also:London, devoting himself to the construction of machines capable of performing arithmetical and even algebraical calculations. He died at London on the 18th of See also:October 1871. He gives a few See also:biographical details in his Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), a work which throws considerable See also:light upon his somewhat See also:peculiar See also:character. His See also:works, See also:pamphlets and papers were very numerous; in the Passages he enumerates eighty See also:separate writings. Of these the most important, besides the few already mentioned, are Tables of Logarithms (1826); See also:Comparative View of the Various Institutions for the Assurance of Lives (1826); Decline of See also:Science in England (183o); Ninth See also:Bridgewater See also:Treatise (1837) The Exposition of 1851 (1851).
See Monthly Notices, Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 32.
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