the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Charles Babbage : Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

'I have been unexpectedly interested - unexpectedly as to degree - in my old friend Babbage's "Passages in the Life &c". I dare say you read it, and half forgot it, months or years ago. I did not like the look of it in the notices I saw: but I let it come in the Mudie box; and I have been almost terribly interested in it... His face and voice come back with a painful vividness while I read... Some tremendous glimpses in this book are like inspiration...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Book

Charles Babbage : Ninth Bridgewater Treatise

[Whewell read Babbage, and was concerned that it had been his own Bridgewater which had stimulated Babbage to write one]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Whewell      Print: Book

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