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Mathematician & inventor Charles Babbage died in 1871.

Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". He is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from the Jacquard loom.

Books by Babbage at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/556

Charles Babbage.
Part of w:Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1, as assembled in 1833, exhibited 1862, and later in the South Kensington Museum.

Críticas a la Feria del Libro de Frankfurt por cancelar un homenaje a la escritora palestina Adania Shibli

Más de 600 personas del mundo de la literatura y de la edición han firmado este lunes una carta abierta de protesta contra esta decisión

Varios grupos editoriales árabes también han anunciado que boicotearán la feria, que tendrá lugar del miércoles al domingo

Leer más en El Periódico

https://www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cultura/20231016/criticas-feria-libro-frankfurt-cancelar-93401506

Poeta maldito y 'enfant terrible': la historia de Branwell, la oveja negra de la familia Brontë

Aunque no ha pasado a la historia como sí lo han hecho sus hermanas, el cuarto hijo de la familia tuvo una vida bohemia y sirvió como catalizador para algunas obras góticas fundamentales en la literatura

Leer más en El Confidencial

https://www.elconfidencial.com/cultura/2023-10-16/poeta-maldito-y-enfant-terrible-la-historia-de-branwell-la-oveja-negra-de-la-famillia-bronte_3754129/

Per una questione di sopravvivenza, ho quasi sempre gli auricolari. Ascolto moltissima musica e un botto di audiolibri. Mi è scaduto l'abbonamento ad Audible e non volendo dare troppi soldi ad Amazon sto valutando altre piattaforme. Consigli, esperienze d'uso? Faccio Storytel?

The 6:20 Man

My latest read.

This is thriller/murder mystery by David Baldacci. It is the first of a new series, the second book "The Edge" is out already and I intend to get my hands on it. The main character is a former US Army officer/Ranger who leaves the Army and takes a job on Wall Street where he becomes entangled in a murder and ends up trying to solve a mystery.

This is a photograph of the book cover for David Baldacci's "The 6:20 Man"

that changed how I see the world:

Stuart Little - White
Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein
That Hideous Strength - Lewis
A Prayer for Owen Meany - Irving
Ender's Game - Card
The Sparrow - Russell
Making Color Sing - Dobie
Holy The Firm - Dillard
Red Mars - Robinson
Homeland - Doctorow
Wool - Howey
Lagoon - Okorafor
Light from Uncommon Stars - Aoki

What are your ?

"It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none."
Rob Roy (1817)

Sir Walter Scott died in 1832. Scottish novelist, poet, historian, and biographer who is often considered both the inventor and the greatest practitioner of the historical novel. via @Britannica

Books by Walter Scott at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/59

A Legend of Montrose illustration. From 1872 edition published by James R. Osgood and Company, Boston.
Portrait by Thomas Lawrence, c. 1820s via Royal Collection.
"Edgar and Lucie at Mermaiden's well" by Charles Robert Leslie (1886), after Sir Walter Scott's Bride of Lammermoor. Lucie is wearing a full plaid.

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
The Discovery of the Future (1901)

Herbert George Wells was born in 1866. English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds and such comic novels as Tono-Bungay and The History of Mr. Polly. via @Britannica

Books by H.G. Wells at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/30

Title page of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36
Portrait by George Charles Beresford, 1920 by George Charles Beresford.

I know I've mentioned this before but worth another one because it's amazing: You can download tens of thousands of academic books on a staggering variety of humanities and social studies topics legally for free at the OAPEN library https://library.oapen.org/

"Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona
de la mia donna disiosamente...
che lo 'ntelletto sovr'esse disvia."
Il Convivio (1304–1307)

Dante Alighieri died in 1321. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language. via @wikipedia

Books by Dante Alighieri at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/507

Posthumous portrait in tempera by Sandro Botticelli, 1495.
Illustration for Paradiso (of The Divine Comedy) by Gustave Doré.
Inferno, Canto XXXI, Antaeus sets down Dante and Virgil in the 9th circle by William Blake.