Category Archives: Technology

Science (Almost) in Earnest

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

A recent addition to our series on the history of education is the rather wordy, three-volume Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest, by John Ayrton Paris, who was also the author of a two-volume life of Sir Humphry Davy … Continue reading →

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Babbage’s Calculating Engines

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

I think I’m right in saying that Charles Babbage (1791–1871) is the only author we have reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection whose books have covers in all three colours – red for his work on the printing industry, On … Continue reading →

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Thou Shalt Commit Adultery

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

Anyone who has ever worked in book production will know the exquisite agony of opening the first shiny new inspection copy of a work and being hit in the eye by the most blindingly obvious, incredibly stupid and horrifying ostentatious … Continue reading →

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Ethereal Physics

Posted on July 2, 2012 by

My mathematical incompetence has been remarked upon before; and I cannot look back upon the nightmare that was my GCE physics exam without feeling sick – in fact, the only thing that stopped me from pretending a sudden illness when … Continue reading →

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