{"id":3373,"date":"2017-05-19T19:47:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T17:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsandscience.it\/prodotto\/the-babbage-issue\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T10:43:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:43:05","slug":"the-babbage-issue","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsandscience.it\/en\/prodotto\/the-babbage-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Babbage Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How is it possible that <b>machines<\/b> can be used to make <b>calculations<\/b>?<br \/>\nIt seems like a strange question, in an era in which computers are everywhere and take every form: from the classic <i>desktop<\/i>, now almost a &#8216;vintage&#8217; item, to <i>the laptop<\/i>, to the modern <i>tablet.<br \/>\n<\/i>The road from the manual technology of counting one\u2019s own fingers to the \u2018digital\u2019 technology of the universal <i>smartphone<\/i>, via the abacus and mechanical calculators, is long and winding, and has taken the greatest energy from the greatest innovators.<br \/>\nLike the protagonist of <i><b>Il segreto di Babbage<\/b><\/i> (Babbage&#8217;s secret), by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsandscience.it\/chi-siamo\/autori\/alfredo-castelli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Alfredo Castelli<\/b><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsandscience.it\/chi-siamo\/autori\/gabriele-peddes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Gabriele Peddes<\/b><\/a>, in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msc.sma.unipi.it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>The Museum of Computing Machinery<\/b><\/a> in Pisa. With their help, we will discover how a dream was born and came true: to free humankind from tedious, heavy and repetitive tasks by <strong>freeing their creative energies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Comics&amp;Science <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Babbage Issue <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Editor<\/strong> CNR Edizioni \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edizioni.cnr.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.edizioni.cnr.it<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Edited by<\/strong> Roberto Natalini, Andrea Plazzi<br \/>\n<strong>Size<\/strong> 16,8\u00d724,6 cm, 48 pages paperback, colour<br \/>\n<strong>Cost <\/strong> 7,00 Euro<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN<\/strong> 978-88-8080-241-9<br \/>\n<strong>Publishing date<\/strong> May 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6130,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[239,240],"product_tag":[308,283,307],"class_list":{"0":"post-3373","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-comicsscience-en","7":"product_cat-regular-series","8":"product_tag-alfredo-castelli-en","9":"product_tag-davide-la-rosa-en","10":"product_tag-gabriele-peddes-en","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsandscience.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsandscience.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsandscience.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsandscience.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsandscience.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsandscience.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsandscience.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsandscience.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}