On 1/4/2025 11:32 AM, Willi Egger wrote:

Dear all,

those of you who joined the last year’s ConTeXt meeting might remember the talk about the development of mechanical calculators… Last night I encountered a very illustrative film on YouTube showing in detail the functioning of the Arithometer.

Enjoy!

indeed, i suppose you're now reading "Reckoning with Matter Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage, Matthew L. Jones" and started building one Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------