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• cur | prev 2026 NotTheMudGeometer (talk | contribs) . . (3,440 bytes) (+45) . . (IF GOD WANTID A EXEPTION HE WOUD JUST DO IT. HE DONT NEED TO SET IT UP A HUNDRED MILION TERMS AGO LIKE HES FILLING IN A FORM) (current)
• cur | prev 2026 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (3,395 bytes) (+130) . . (→ Whewell is the third treatise, not the seventh. corrected here, in the lead and in the footnote, all three of which had been wrong in the same direction)
• cur | prev 2026 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (3,265 bytes) (+160) . . (→ the paragraph about the Earl's dogs is not a digression and stays, though the number that dined is one account's and the note now says so. eight thousand pounds of natural theology came from a man whose dogs were dressed for dinner by their own footmen)
• cur | prev 2024 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (3,105 bytes) (+200) . . (→ counted the treatises. there are eight, and this is the ninth, and the article had been saying that as though it were an oversight rather than the entire point)
• cur | prev 1871 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (2,905 bytes) (+120) . . (→ Babbage has died with both engines unfinished. the demonstration in this book was made on the working portion of the first, so the argument for a completed design was carried by a fragment)
• cur | prev 1866 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (2,785 bytes) (+70) m . . (→ Whewell has died. no reply to the ninth is on record, which is one way of dealing with it)
• cur | prev 1864 C. Babbage (talk | contribs) . . (2,715 bytes) (+150) . . (→ twenty-seven years on. the explanation of miracles has now stood the test of more than a quarter of a century and been examined by some of the deepest thinkers in many countries. it has not been agreed with. that is a different sentence and I have not written it)
• cur | prev 1851 the Mud Geometer (talk | contribs) . . (2,565 bytes) (+55) . . (A MACHINE THAT COUNTS WRONG ON PURPOS IS A BROKE MACHINE. I HAVE SEEN MUD DO THE SAME THING AND NO ONE GIVE IT A CHAPTER)
• cur | prev 1838 C. Babbage (talk | contribs) . . (2,510 bytes) (+290) . . (→ second edition. chapter X rewritten and its note much enlarged, my meaning on Hume having been taken four ways, none of them mine)
• cur | prev 1837 C. Babbage (talk | contribs) . . (2,220 bytes) (+270) . . (→ chapter IX. no motion impressed on the air is ever obliterated, so the air is one vast library, on whose pages are for ever written all that man has ever said or woman whispered. I am aware that nobody can read it. that is not the same as its not being written)
• cur | prev 1837 C. Babbage (talk | contribs) . . (1,950 bytes) (+340) . . (→ the engine gives the natural numbers to a hundred million and one, and then gives a hundred million ten thousand and two. nothing was touched. the exception was in the wheels before the first term was struck, and a contriver who provides for it beforehand has shown more foresight than one who must reach in)
• cur | prev 1837 C. Babbage (talk | contribs) . . (1,610 bytes) (+160) . . (→ set Dr Whewell's paragraph on the title page, entire and over my own name. the reader may have the charge before he has the answer)
• cur | prev 1837 C. Babbage (talk | contribs) . . (1,450 bytes) (+520) . . (→ added a ninth. it is not commissioned, it is not paid for, and I have numbered it because the series is not the property of the men who were asked)
• cur | prev 1836 W. Buckland (talk | contribs) . . (930 bytes) (+180) . . (→ added the sixth, on geology. there is room in the first verse of Genesis for an age nobody had counted, and the strata go in there, and the two are now reconciled to the satisfaction of everybody who does not count)
• cur | prev 1833 W. Whewell (talk | contribs) . . (750 bytes) (+210) . . (→ added the third, on astronomy and general physics. I say at p. 334 that mathematicians have no authority on the administration of the universe and are in some respects less likely than other men to reach it. I stand by the page and would put it no softer)
• cur | prev 1829 D. Gilbert (talk | contribs) . . (540 bytes) (+240) . . (→ divided it eight ways, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London concurring. eight is a number the will does not give and nobody has objected to it)
• cur | prev 1829 the Earl of Bridgewater (talk | contribs) . . (300 bytes) (+300) . . (created page; eight thousand pounds, to be spent on works upon the power, wisdom and goodness of God as manifested in the Creation. the number of the works is left to the Royal Society. the dogs are not the Royal Society's concern)

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