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An unauthorised addendum to Babbage's unauthorised addendum to the Bridgewater treatises.  Confess I have not read it yet!  There's a bit about the whole perpetual sound waves thing.

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Against the 'ancient earth' hyposis and for Biblical literalism; cites Babbage's 'desperate hypothesis' that we may not have correctly translated ancient Hebrew.

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LOL, compares Babbage to Byron in "morbid sensibility to neglect". Still not much love for Bridgewater.. "strange and desultory contents"-- painful summary of the chapters included.

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Amongst the many things Babbage was famous for was 'The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise"- a somewhat weird but influential collection of musings on the relation of Science to Theology. Babbage was a firm believer to the end of his life; with his God-the-Programmer view of the universe he seems to have settled the issue to his own satisfaction. There are many period reactions to this piece in this list.

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Another Bridgwater citation, this time favourable.

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"My doom is settled-- Q.E.D.
As though by Babbage proved, or Whewell
A victim pre-ordained, he knew well."
An allusion the the mechanistic, pre-ordained universe depicted in Babbage's Bridgewater Treatise

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Ouch.. harsh but kinda true. Clear, concise, and hard to argue with: Babbage is a genius and we love him, but, WTF?

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Another Bridgewater riposte, rather sweet

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Pithy summary of the Bridgewater project-- though Babbage's contribution was unnofficial.\n"This essay springs from a private endowment under the care of the Royal Institution. The author is Mr. George Fownes, chemical lecturer in the Middlesex Hospital. We are now familiar with books tracing divine wisdom and beneficence in physics, physiology, and the mental constituion of man. Mr Babbage has called even the unpromising subject of mathematics into the same field."

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Quotes Babbage's striking passage on eternal resonances of sound from his 9th Bridgewater Treatise

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Takes up Babbage's arguments from Bridgewater in calculating the probabilities of resurrection.. "Assuming the origin of the human race to be about 6000 years ago..."

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Reference to 9th Bridgewater, how the Bible should be understood as metaphorical.

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Babbage's image of all sound lingering in a permanent echo made a big impression-- there are many little allusion to it like this one.

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This is an oddity-- it's from a memoir of William Maginn-- Wikipedia informs me he was a prolific magazine writer, producing articles for Blackwoods and Punch among others. This seems to be a depiction of his writing process; 'Babbage rhymes with cabbage.." I THINK the book he's complaining about here is the poor old much-maligned 9th Bridgewater treatise.

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Oh dear.. even the tireless Babbage-boosters at Mechanic's Magazine savage Bridgewater. "Some chapters have no end; many more have no beginning; and one at least may be fairly said to have no beginning, middle, or end."

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This quotation is from the 9th Bridgeater Treatise.

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