Miscellanea. Hoc est I. Dissertatio de barometris, & thermometris. II. Machinae aritmeticae, ejusque usus descriptio. III. De sectionibus conicis parallelorum in horologiis solaribus tractatus.
Venice: Aloysius Pavinus, 1709. First edition of Poleni’s first book, the second part of which is a description of an early ‘arithmetical machine,’ or primitive calculator. Babbage had a copy of this work in his library. “Poleni’s earliest paper was Miscellanea: de barometris et thermometris; de machinaquadam arithmetiea; de sectionibus..... More
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