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[Babbage (Charles) and John Herschel]. Memoirs of the Analytical Society 1813, first edition, errata f., ink inscription to head of contents p., Cambridge, 1813 bound with Agnesi (Maria Gaetana) Analytical institutions... translated into English by John Colson, vol. 2 only, half-title, Taylor and Wilks, 1801 together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional light foxing or finger-soiling, both title-pages cut down at head and restored, lacking front free endpaper, 19th century half morocco, extremities rubbed, [Origins of Cyberspace 17-18 (copy lacking two leaves of the Babbage paper); Tomash & Williams B67 & A41; Van Sinderen 1-2], 4to. ⁂ Rare. "Driven by their desire to modernize the teaching of mathematics at Cambridge when they were undergraduates there, Babbage, Herschel and Peacock founded the Analytical Society in 1813. The contents were of surprisingly high quality (often written by the founders and their friends). This volume contains a preface and three articles. Babbage was certainly the author of the preface and the first article, and he might well have written the second" - Tomash & Williams.