"Intriguing...beautiful and thought-provoking....Features striking photography and perceptive yet concise text"-- Library Journal . From the abacus to the microchip, from the sun dial to the satellite dish, the devices we have designed for computation bear feature remarkable threads of continuity. This lavishly illustrated volume travels from Stonehenge to Silicon Valley to provide a fascinating look at the patterns that run through humanity's technological achievements.
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"Intriguing...beautiful and thought-provoking....Features striking photography and perceptive yet concise text"-- Library Journal . From the abacus to the microchip, from the sun dial to the satellite dish, the devices we have designed for computation bear feature remarkable threads of continuity. This lavishly illustrated volume travels from Stonehenge to Silicon Valley to provide a fascinating look at the patterns that run through humanity's technological achievements.
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Add this copy of Pebbles to Computers: the Thread to cart. $100.80, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Oxford University Press.
Add this copy of Pebbles to Computers: the Thread to cart. $719.85, good condition, Sold by BARNABY rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Oxford, OXFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1986 by Oxford University Press.
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Good Condition. An excellent copy in great condition. Dust jacket is fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. All pages clean, crisp and fresh. Publisher's note: This book is about the connexions that link and pattern the story of humanity's attempt to understand its experience. If we could not organise our perceptions so as to interpret them, then our cosmos would seem to be random and meaningless. The need to organise and analyse is one of the characteristics that make us human. Our responses to that need make up the history of thought. The story of computation, from the earliest use of pebbles to the most sophisticated modern circuits, is one of the central themes in the story of human endeavour, but this book is more than a history. Here the insights of the artist, the philosopher and the scientist are brought together in a unique conjunction. Like a prismatic lens they reveal colours and planes that are otherwise hidden from sight. --from dust jacket. Size: 21.6 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm. 112 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Computers & Internet; Computers History; ISBN: 0195405366. ISBN/EAN: 9780195405361. Add. Inventory No: 241007GAY0236022.
