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Stepped reckoner

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"... it is beneath the dignity of excellent men to waste their time in calculation when any peasant could do the work just as accurately with the aid of a machine." (G.W.L, 1673)
  • presented to Royal Society on 1st February 1673
  • could add, subtract, multiply and divide
  • "the core component is a so-called "Leibniz wheel"

Ancestors (1 superordinated path)

root/ baumhaus.digital/ Studium Generale/ Prolegomena to Educatio Digitale/ Session 4 :: Between Renaissance and Age of Reason/ Stepped reckoner
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