PASSAGESFROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER, by Charles Babbage
B. H. Babbage, del.
Impression from a woodcut of a small portion of Mr. Babbage’s DifferenceEngine No. 1, the property of Government, at present deposited in the Museumat South Kensington.
  • It was commenced 1823.
  • This portion put together 1833.
  • The construction abandoned 1842.
  • This plate was printed June, 1853.
  • This portion was in the Exhibition 1862.
PASSAGES
FROM
THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER.
BY
CHARLES BABBAGE, ESQ., M.A.,
F.R.S., F.R.S.E., F.R.A.S., F. STAT. S., HON.M.R.I.A., M.C.P.S.,COMMANDER OF THE ITALIAN ORDER OF ST. MAURICE ANDST. LAZARUS,INST. IMP. (ACAD. MORAL.) PARIS CORR., ACAD. AMER. ART.ET SC. BOSTON, REG. ŒCON. BORUSS., PHYS. HIST. NAT. GENEV., ACAD. REG.MONAC., HAFN., MASSIL., ET DIVION., SOCIUS. ACAD. IMP. ET REG. PETROP.,NEAP., BRUX., PATAV., GEORG. FLOREN, LYNCEI ROM., MUT., PHILOMATH.PARIS, SOC. CORR., ETC.
“I’m a phi­los­o­pher. Confound them all—
Birds, beasts, and men; but no, notwomankind.”—Don Juan.
“I now gave my mind to philosophy: the great object of my ambitionwas to make out a complete system of the universe, including andcomprehending the origin, causes, consequences, and termination of allthings. Instead of countenance, encouragement, and applause, whichI should have received from every one who has the true dignity ofan oyster at heart, I was exposed to calumny and misrep­re­sen­ta­tion.While engaged in my great work on the universe, some even wentso far as to accuse me of infidelity;—such is the malignity ofoysters.”—“Autobiography of an Oyster” deciphered by the aid ofphotography in the shell of a phi­los­o­pher of that race,—recentlyscolloped.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN.
1864.
[The right of Translation is reserved.]
DEDICATION.
TO VICTOR EMMANUEL II., KING OF ITALY.
SIRE,
INdedicating this volume to your Majesty, I am alsodoing an act of justice to the memory of your illustriousfather.
In 1840, the King, Charles Albert, invited the learned ofItaly to assemble in his capital. At the request of her mostgifted Analyst, I brought with me the drawings and explanationsof the Analytical Engine. These were thoroughlyexamined and their truth acknowledged by Italy’s choicestsons.
To the King, your father, I am indebted for the first publicand official acknowledgment of this invention.
I am happy in thus expressing my deep sense of that obligationto his son, the Sovereign of united Italy, the countryof Archimedes and of Galileo.
I am, Sire,
With the highest                        
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