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SUMMARY:Matthew Jones - Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines\, Innovation\, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage
DESCRIPTION:Book Culture\n 536 West 112th Street \nMatthew L. Jones\, James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization \nFrom Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century\, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines. All failed\, but that does not mean we cannot learn from the trail of ideas\, correspondence\, machines\, and arguments they left behind. \nIn Reckoning with Matter\, Matthew L. Jones draws on the remarkably extensive and well-preserved records of the quest to explore the concrete processes involved in imagining\, elaborating\, testing\, and building calculating machines. He explores the writings of philosophers\, engineers\, and craftspeople\, showing how they thought about technical novelty\, their distinctive areas of expertise\, and ways they could coordinate their efforts. In doing so\, Jones argues that the conceptions of creativity and making they exhibited are often more incisive and more honest than those that dominate our current legal\, political\, and aesthetic culture. \nMatthew L. Jones is the James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization in the Department of History at Columbia University and the author of The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution\, also published by the University of Chicago Press. \nThis event is part of the Center for Science and Society’s Big Data and Science Studies research cluster. Please visit the event’s website for more details.
URL:https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/scisoc/cssevent/reckoning-matter/
LOCATION:Book Culture\, 536 West 112th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for Science and Society Events,NYC Metro area events
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