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Table of Contents

  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Epigraph
  4. Dedication
  5. Preface
  6. Frontispiece
  7. Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
    1. I: My Ancestors
    2. II: Childhood
      1. Earliest Recollections
    3. III: Boyhood
    4. IV: Cambridge
    5. V: Difference Engine No. I
      1. Explanation of the Difference Engine
      2. Of the Mechanical Arrangements Necessary for Computing Tables by the Method of Differences
      3. Description of the Existing Portion of Difference Engine No. 1
    6. VI: Statement Relative to the Difference Engine, Drawn Up by the Late Sir H. Nicolas from the Author’s Papers
    7. VII: Difference Engine No. II
    8. VIII: Of the Analytical Engine
    9. IX: Of the Mechanical Notation
    10. X: The Exhibition of 1862
      1. Circumstances Connected with the Exhibition of the Difference Engine No. 1 in the International Exhibition of 1862
      2. List of Mechanical Notations Proposed to Be Lent for the Exhibition
    11. XI: The Late Prince Consort
    12. XII: Recollections of the Duke of Wellington
    13. XIII: Recollections of Wollaston, Davy, and Rogers
      1. The Thaumatrope
    14. XIV: Recollections of Laplace, Biot, and Humboldt
      1. Alexander Humboldt
      2. Of the Bonaparte Family
    15. XV: Experience by Water
    16. XVI: Experience by Fire
      1. Baked in an Oven
      2. A Living Volcano
      3. Hot Springs
      4. Earthquakes
      5. Fire Damp
    17. XVII: Experience Amongst Workmen
    18. XVIII: Picking Locks and Deciphering
      1. Deciphering
    19. XIX: Experience in St. Giles’s
    20. XX: Theatrical Experience
    21. XXI: Electioneering Experience
    22. XXII: Scene from a New Afterpiece, Called “Politics and Poetry;” or, “The Decline of Science”
      1. Dramatis Personæ
      2. Scenes, etc., Extracted
        1. Act I
          1. Scene I
          2. Scene IV
          3. Scene V
          4. Scene VI
          5. Scene VII
          6. Scene IX
          7. Scene X
          8. Scene XI
        2. Act II
          1. Scene I
          2. Scene IV
          3. Scene VI
          4. Scene VIII
          5. Scene XII
    23. XXIII: Experience at Courts
    24. XXIV: Experience at Courts
    25. XXV: Railways
    26. XXVI: Street Nuisances
    27. XXVII: Wit
    28. XXVIII: Hints for Travellers
    29. XXIX: Miracles
    30. XXX: Religion
    31. XXXI: A Vision
    32. XXXII: Various Reminiscences
      1. On Preventing the Forgery of Banknotes
      2. An Émeute
      3. Letters of Credit
      4. The Speaker
      5. Ancient Music
    33. XXXIII: The Author’s Contributions to Human Knowledge
      1. Of the Part Taken by the Author in the Formation of Various Scientific Societies
      2. Calculus of Functions
      3. Political Economy
        1. Division of Labour
        2. Cost of Any Article
        3. Principles of Taxation
        4. Monopoly
        5. Miracles
    34. XXXIV: The Author’s Further Contributions to Human Knowledge
      1. Of Glaciers
      2. Of the Causes of the Transformation of Condensed Snow Into Transparent Ice
      3. Book and Parcel Post
      4. Submarine Navigation
      5. Difference Engine
      6. Explanation of the Cause of Magnetic and Electric Rotations
      7. Mechanical Notation
      8. Occulting Lights
      9. Night Signals
      10. Sun Signals
      11. Zenith-Light Signals
      12. Greenwich Time Signals
      13. Geological Theory of Isothermal Surfaces
      14. Games of Skill
      15. Problem of the Three Magnetic Bodies
    35. XXXV: Results of Science
      1. Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, etc.
      2. Commissioners of Railways
    36. XXXVI: Agreeable Recollections
      1. Conclusion
  8. Appendix
    1. Miracles
    2. Religion
    3. Addition to the Chapter on Railroads
  9. List of Mr. Babbage’s Printed Papers
  10. Endnotes
  11. List of Illustrations
  12. Colophon
  13. Uncopyright

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  1. Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
  2. Endnotes
  3. List of Illustrations