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<p>Dear Gerard, colleagues,</p>
<p>Thank you very much for posting the news about the publication of the
book, and for your kind words.</p>
<p>Telly</p>
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font-size: 10pt;">Dear colleagues,
<div>Aristotle Tympas' long awaited book is out now: <span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>Calculation and Computation in the
Pre-electronic Era</em></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><em>The Mechanical and Electrical
Ages</em></span></p>
<div>http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781848827417</div>
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<div>The book <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">offers</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> an introduction to the history of computing
during the ‘first’ (of steam) and the ‘second’ (of electricity) industrial
revolution. It </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">brakes away from the
idea that </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">the history of
computing before the second half of the 20th century was unimportant. In
fact the Industrial Revolution was made possible and even sustained by a
parallel revolution in computing technology. An examination and
historiographical assessment of key developments helps to show how the era
of modern electronic computing proceeded from a continual computing
revolution that had arisen during the mechanical and the electrical
ages.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">To quote David Mindells praise:
</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">"In this
fascinating, original work, Tympas indispensably intertwines the histories
of analog and digital computing, showing them to be inseparable from the
evolution of social and economic conditions. </span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please inspect the Springer page for our series:
http://www.springer.com/series/8442</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The previous two volumes in the series by Bill Aspray
were not announced to the SIGCIS list. Allow me to just mention them
here</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">William Aspray,
</span><em style="font-size: 10pt;">Women and Underrepresented Minorities
in Computing;</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span lang="EN-US">A Historical and Social
Study</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Examines the highly neglected
subject of race in the history of science and technology</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
lang="EN-US">http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319248097</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">William Aspray, <em>Participation
in Computing;</em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span lang="EN-US">The National Science
Foundation’s Expansionary Programs</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Examines the unexplored history of
the NSF, an important player in US computer history</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
lang="EN-US">http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319248301</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Further volumes to come in 2018
PLUS we are about to launch a new series SpringerBriefs in History of
Computing (<a title="This external link will open in a new window"
href="http://www.springer.com/series/15184"
target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/series/15184</a>)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes from Amsterdam in spring: only last week
the ice on the canals allowed skating.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gerard Alberts</p>
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<p><br><br>-- <br>Aristotle Tympas<br>Associate Professor <br>Department
of Philosophy and History of Science<br>School of Science<br>National and
Kapodistrian University of
Athens<br><br>tympas@phs.uoa.gr<br>http://scholar.uoa.gr/tympas</p>
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