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August 12 1790 Richard Jones born

December 26 1791 Charles Babbage born

March 7 1792 John Herschel born

May 24 1794 William Whewell born

1812-1813 ldquoPhilosophical Breakfastsrdquo held in Herschelrsquosrooms at Cambridge

Spring 1813 ndash1819 Herschel discovers the ldquohypordquo (hyposul-

phite of soda) later used to lsquofixrsquo photographs when that tech-nology is invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in the 1830s

December 1821 Babbage first thinks of inventing an ldquoarith-metical enginerdquo and begins work on his Difference Engine No 1

1829ndash1831 Whewell invents mathematical economics in aseries of papers attacking David Ricardorsquos economic theories

1831 Herschel publishes Preliminary Discourse on the Study

of Natural Philosophy which would teach scientific methodto Darwin Jones publishes An Essay on the Distribution ofWealth an attack on David Ricardorsquos economic theory andmethod

September 1831 The British Association for the Advance-ment of Science (BAAS) is created by Babbage and DavidBrewster and devised to showcase Herschel Whewell andBabbagersquos view of science

1833 Whewell publishes his Bridgewater Treatise on the rela-tion between science and religion arguing that truth in onerealm cannot conflict with truth in the other

June 1833 At the BAAS meeting in Cambridge Whewell in-vents the word ldquoscientistrdquo Whewell and Jones create the ldquosta-tistical sectionrdquo of the society introducing statistical techniquesof astronomy into the new ldquosocial sciencesrdquo

November 1833 Herschel and his sail to South Africa Over the next fou

years Herschel will map the skies of thSouthern Hemisphere

Summer 1834 Babbage invents his AnalyticEngine the first mechanical device with all the functioncapabilities of a modern-day computer This device couprogrammed using punch cards like those devised for t

Jacquard Loom June 1835 Whewell organizes the first international recof tidal data

June 1836 Tithe Bill passes Parliament Jones appointto the Commission overseeing the converting of tithe (tpayments from produce to money which requires the firextensive mapping of rural England and Wales

MidndashMarch 1837 Darwin first voices the possibility thldquoone species does change into anotherrdquo after attendingBabbagersquos Saturday ldquosoireacuteesrdquo where he witnessed Babbdemonstration with the Difference Engine model

JanuaryndashMarch 1839 Herschel coins the terms ldquophotraphyrdquo for Talbotrsquos new invention and devises the methofixing photographs Herschel introduces the method in aread to the Royal Society

August 1840 Herschel produces the first color photogof the light spectrum Babbage publicizes his Analytical at a conference of Italian scientists in Turin where he mLuigi Menabrea a mathematician and army engineer

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1841 Whewell publishes Philosophy of the Inductive

Sciences a book which indicated to Darwin the best way toprove his theory of evolution

November 1842 British government ends funding toBabbage after granting approximately $25 million in todayrsquoscurrency for the Difference Engine

August 1843 Byronrsquos daughter Ada Lovelace translatesMenabrearsquos article about the Analytical Engine Itrsquos publishedalong with the first computer program which she co-wrotewith Babbage

October 1846

Babbage applies what he learned workingon the Analytical Engine to invent the Difference EngineNo 2 In 1991 it became the only one of his Engines to befully constructed when it was built at the Science Museum ofLondon

March 1847

Herschel finishes calculating all the astronomical data from his expedition to South Africa and publishes it

1848 Whewell introduces the Natural Sciences Triposat Cambridge allowing students to graduate with a degscience it took another twelve years before he convincUniversity that this exam was sufficient for graduating

November 1850

Herschel appointed Master of the M

1853 Whewell publishes Of the Plurality of Worlds aagainst the existence of intelligent life on other planets

January 26 1855

Richard Jones dies at age sixty-fo

1855

Babbage breaks the ldquoindecipherablerdquo Vigenegravere che returns to work on the Analytical Engine perhaps widea of building a code-breaking machine

March 6 1866 Whewell dies at age seventy-one

May 11 1871 Herschel dies at age seventy-nine

October 18 1871 Babbage dies at age seventy-nine

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August 12 1790 Richard Jones born

December 26 1791 Charles Babbage born

March 7 1792 John Herschel born

May 24 1794 William Whewell born

1812-1813 ldquoPhilosophical Breakfastsrdquo held in Herschelrsquosrooms at Cambridge

Spring 1813 ndash1819 Herschel discovers the ldquohypordquo (hyposul-

phite of soda) later used to lsquofixrsquo photographs when that tech-nology is invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in the 1830s

December 1821 Babbage first thinks of inventing an ldquoarith-metical enginerdquo and begins work on his Difference Engine No 1

1829ndash1831 Whewell invents mathematical economics in aseries of papers attacking David Ricardorsquos economic theories

1831 Herschel publishes Preliminary Discourse on the Study

of Natural Philosophy which would teach scientific methodto Darwin Jones publishes An Essay on the Distribution ofWealth an attack on David Ricardorsquos economic theory andmethod

September 1831 The British Association for the Advance-ment of Science (BAAS) is created by Babbage and DavidBrewster and devised to showcase Herschel Whewell andBabbagersquos view of science

1833 Whewell publishes his Bridgewater Treatise on the rela-tion between science and religion arguing that truth in onerealm cannot conflict with truth in the other

June 1833 At the BAAS meeting in Cambridge Whewell in-vents the word ldquoscientistrdquo Whewell and Jones create the ldquosta-tistical sectionrdquo of the society introducing statistical techniquesof astronomy into the new ldquosocial sciencesrdquo

November 1833 Herschel and his sail to South Africa Over the next fou

years Herschel will map the skies of thSouthern Hemisphere

Summer 1834 Babbage invents his AnalyticEngine the first mechanical device with all the functioncapabilities of a modern-day computer This device couprogrammed using punch cards like those devised for t

Jacquard Loom June 1835 Whewell organizes the first international recof tidal data

June 1836 Tithe Bill passes Parliament Jones appointto the Commission overseeing the converting of tithe (tpayments from produce to money which requires the firextensive mapping of rural England and Wales

MidndashMarch 1837 Darwin first voices the possibility thldquoone species does change into anotherrdquo after attendingBabbagersquos Saturday ldquosoireacuteesrdquo where he witnessed Babbdemonstration with the Difference Engine model

JanuaryndashMarch 1839 Herschel coins the terms ldquophotraphyrdquo for Talbotrsquos new invention and devises the methofixing photographs Herschel introduces the method in aread to the Royal Society

August 1840 Herschel produces the first color photogof the light spectrum Babbage publicizes his Analytical at a conference of Italian scientists in Turin where he mLuigi Menabrea a mathematician and army engineer

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March 1847



November 1850



January 26 1855


1855







books are sold


THE PHILOSOPHICAL


LAURA J SNYDER









October 1846


March 1847



November 1850



January 26 1855


1855







books are sold


THE PHILOSOPHICAL


LAURA J SNYDER



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