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Languages : en
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Scrap-book of Programs, Newspaper Clippings, Tickets, Etc. Descriptive of Undergraduate Life at Princeton University, 1888-1892
Author: Scrapbook Containing Invitations, Programs, Souvenirs, Etc., of His Senior Year at Princeton, 1892
Author: Scrapbooks of Miscellaneous Writings, Press Clippings on Lectures, and Mementos of Student Life at Princeton University
Author: Wilson FarrandQUINDECENNIAL RECORD OF THE CL
Author: Princeton University Class of 1888Publisher:
ISBN: 9781371826321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Record of the Class of 1878, Princeton College
Author: College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.). Class of 1878Publisher:
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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The Century Dictionary: The Century cyclopedia ofnames ... ed. by Benjamin E. Smith ... v. 12. Atlas
Author: The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century cyclopedia of names ... ed. by Benjamin E. Smith
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: On Their Own Terms
Author: Benjamin A. ElmanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674036476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.
When Computers Were Human
Author: David Alan GrierPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849365
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
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Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world. The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.