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Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage

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Luigi Menabrea's account of Charles Babbage's 1840 lectures on the Analytical Engine, first published in French in October 1842, translated into English by Ada Lovelace and published with her own explanatory notes, roughly three times the length of the original article, in Richard Taylor's Scientific Memoirs, Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science and Learned Societies, and from Foreign Journals, volume 3, in October 1843.

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Author
Luigi Federico Menabrea, translated and annotated by Ada Lovelace
Publisher
Scientific Memoirs, Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science and Learned Societies, and from Foreign Journals
Publication Year
1843
Source Type
Journal article
Reliability Tier
1
The primary published translation and notes containing Lovelace's own Bernoulli number method, the algorithm's own foundational source, its publication details cross-checked against more than one independent bibliographic account during research.
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Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage
Luigi Federico Menabrea, translated and annotated by Ada Lovelace, Scientific Memoirs, Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science and Learned Societies, and from Foreign Journals, 1843
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