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Rapport . . . sur la machine à calculer dite arithomètre by Sebert, H.

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Title: Rapport . . . sur la machine à calculer dite arithomètre
Author: Sebert, H.
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Paris, 1879. [Thomas de Colmar Arithmometer.] Sebert, H. Rapport . . . sur la machine à calculer dite arithmomètre inventée par M. Thomas (de Colmar) et perfectionée par M. Thomas de Bojano. Offprint from Bulletin de la Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale, series 3, 6 (1879). 34pp. 2 folding plates showing details of the Arithmometer's construction. 282 x 227 mm. Unbound; stitched. Edges a bit frayed, plates lightly foxed, a few fingermarks but very good. First Edition. The arithmometer was invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar (1785-1870), who patented its design in 1820. The Thomas Arithmometer, manufactured between 1851 and 1915, was the first commercially successful calculating machine; its debut at the Great Exhibition of 1851 launched the mechanical calculator industry. Between 1851 and 1890 the arithmometer was the only type of mechanical calculator in commercial production, and its design was copied by several European companies. The brand name "Arithmometer" became a generic term referring to any four-function calculating machine. "Although based on the Leibnitz stepped-drum gears, the arithmometer incorporated several features which made it easier to use . . . These changes, together with the improvements introduced because of better manufacturing techniques for the gears, resulted in a machine which was basically reliable in operation even if it was large enough to cover a complete desk and often required two men to move it safely from place to place. "Arithmometers remained in production until about the start of the First World War. They were produced in several standard models, some with six, seven, or even eight figures in the set-up mechanism and twice that number of digits in the result register . . . Individual machines were produced before M. Thomas started up his firm, but he ranks as the first to actually create an industry which manufactured mechanical devices to aid in calculation. He was the acknowledged leader in this field for most of the nineteenth century, being awarded the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for his achievement" (Williams, A History of Computing Technology, pp. 151-52). Randell, The Origins of Digital Computers: Selected Papers, pp. 508-509. .

The Lane of Eternal Stability by Wu, K. C.

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Title: The Lane of Eternal Stability
Author: Wu, K. C.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
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Description: New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1962. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Signed by K.C. Wu on the half title page and inscribed "With best wishes." 479 pp. Bound in publisher's orange paper-covered boards over yellow spine cloth lettered in orange, cartographic endpapers. Near Fine with light wear, in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling, and creasing and small stain to spine panel; a few archival mending tissue repairs to verso. An attractive copy of the novel by K.C. Wu (Wu Kuo-chen), an American-educated Chinese politician who served as Mayor of Shanghai after the Second World War. After the Communist victory in 1949 he relocated with the Nationalist government to Taiwan, where he was appointed Governor but came into conflict with more conservative party members. A well-known figure who appeared on the cover of Time magazine, the Governor and his family were eventually forced to leave Taiwan for the United States, where Wu became a professor of Chinese history. The Lane of Eternal Stability, his first novel, charts the course of a decayed gentry family over fifty years of turbulent change.

Select Notions 1685 by Whichcote, Benjamin

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Title: Select Notions 1685
Author: Whichcote, Benjamin
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Menston, Yorkshire, England: The Scolar Press, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile of original 1685 edition. Blue paper boards with gilt title to spine and gilt emblem to front board. Minor wear to boards including a few small spots of discoloration. Pristine interior. 114 pages Religion. REL/071309.

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