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| List of figures and tables | ||
| Preface and acknowledgements | ||
| Abbreviations used in footnotes | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | The nature of discovery : the attributional model | 11 |
| 3 | The beginnings of a dispute and its interpretation | 27 |
| 4 | Attributional survey : phase one, 1784-1830 | 59 |
| 5 | Keeping account : James Watt, Jr. and the filial project | 83 |
| 6 | The French connection : Arago re-opens the controversy | 105 |
| 7 | Managing the symbols of Victorian science : 'gentlemen of science' and the water controversy | 129 |
| 8 | The advocates of Watt : Brougham, Jeffrey and Muirhead | 169 |
| 9 | The defence of Cavendish : character, precision and discipline | 193 |
| 10 | The controversy joined, 1840-60 | 215 |
| 11 | Still waters : attributional survey, 1830-1900 | 253 |
| 12 | Conclusions | 279 |
| App | Attributional survey database | 285 |
| Bibliography | 289 | |
| Index | 307 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $130.00 | Digital |
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John Constantine
reviewed Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth Century Water Controversy on May 23, 2019
Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth Century Water Controversy
Konrad Zuse was a german civil engineer who, during WWII, essentially invented the computer & some programming theory in parallel with similar inventions from the Allied nations.
He gives some focus to the effects of the war on his work; especially the prototypes destroyed due to it. He also spent a good amount of time talking about a theory of programming languages. He designed a language called the "plan calculus" that is more thoroughly grounded in boolean algebra (instead of numeric operations).
Overall, the book is a fascinating look at Zuse. It's both amazing (in the 1930's, he theorized that one day his computing machines would be able to play chess, and win!) and sad (even up to his death in 1995, some of his ideas received short thrift).
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