Calculator Quotes (1)
It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
Describing, in 1685, the value to astronomers of the hand-cranked calculating machine he had invented in 1673.
Describing, in 1685, the value to astronomers of the hand-cranked calculating machine he had invented in 1673.
Quoted in David Eugene Smith, A Source Book in Mathematics (1929). In Aad Blok and Gregory John Downey, Uncovering Labour in Information Revolutions, 1750-2000 (2003), 93-94.
