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Calculating Machine Duc De
747 wordsBorn: Clermont-Ferrand, 19 June 1623 Pascal's ancestors were rich merchants that attained the highest ranks of the burgess class. His father, Etienne, was a royal tax officer and a member of the petit noblesse. Although there is no explicit word about the financial status of the father, that ancestry of rich merchants, together with all the circumstances of Pascal's life, seem clearly to state that he grew up in wealthy circumstances. Pascal appears to have had no formal education. As a young ch...
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Johann Bernoulli Royal Society
3,640 wordsGottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz was born on the July 1, 1646 in Leipzig, Germany and died on November 14, 1716 in Hanover, Germany. He was the son of Friedrich Leibnitz, a professor of moral philosophy at Leipzig. Friedrich Leibnitz was evidently a competent though not original scholar, who devoted his time to his offices and to his family as a pious, Christian father. His mother was Catharina Schmuck, the daughter of a lawyer and Friedrich's third wife. Friedrich died when Leibnitz was only six year...
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Calculating Machine Royal Society
874 wordsGottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646 in Leipzig. His father was a Professor of Moral Philosophy and Vice Chairman of the faculty of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. His father died when he was six, so his mother raised him. When he was seven, Leibniz attended the Nicolai School in Leipzig. At the school he was taught Latin, but he also taught himself more advanced Latin and some Greek by the age of 12. In 1661, when Leibniz was fourteen he ...
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Large Scale Integration Electronic Digital Computer
3,222 wordsHISTORY OF COMPUTERS Historically, the most important early computing instrument is the abacus, which has been known and widely used for more than 2, 000 years. Another computing instrument, the astrolabe, was also in use about 2, 000 years ago for navigation. Blaise Pascal is widely credited with building the first digital calculating machine in 1642. It performed only additions of numbers entered by means of dials and was intended to help Pascals father, who was a tax collector. In 1671, Gottf...
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World War Ii Nuclear Warfare
3,107 wordsElspeth Wilson Politics 038; Film Final Paper December 15, 2000 Its the End of the World and I Feel Fine! (The role of intellectuals in the creation and justification of nuclear weapons. ) In Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Sidney Lumet and Stanley Kubrick question the relationship between technology and humanity by emphasizing mankind's tendency to create machines that cannot be adequately controlled. By blatantly revealing the absurdity o...
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