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Hace 1 día · Trinity College, Cambridge, Peterhouse, Cambridge. Signature. Charles Babbage KH FRS ( / ˈbæbɪdʒ /; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. [1] A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. [2] Babbage is considered by some to be ...
Hace 4 días · Peterhouse, Cambridge, owned c. 26 a. of land in Orwell in 1669 and 1837. Economic History. Orwell, with Malton, has been a predominantly agricultural parish since the 11th century, although several inhabitants in 1279 bore names such as faber, mercator, and textor.
Hace 2 días · He was elected a fellow of St. Peter's (as Peterhouse was often called at the time) in June 1845. On gaining the fellowship, he spent some time in the laboratory of the celebrated Henri Victor Regnault , at Paris; but in 1846 he was appointed to the chair of natural philosophy in the University of Glasgow.
Hace 3 días · Pembroke College, by including a College chapel in the 14th-century buildings enclosing the court, is an early example of the typical collegiate plan at Cambridge; but the architectural evidence of it has been almost destroyed by demolitions made within the last eighty-five years.
Hace 3 días · Cambridge (/ ˈ k eɪ m b r ɪ dʒ /, KAYM-brij) is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is the county town of Cambridgeshire and is located on the River Cam, 55 miles (89 km) north of London.
Hace 4 días · When the Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge bought a charm, ‘the King’s Professor of Divinity in a famous university’ was being ridiculed for being ‘such a fool’ (p. 140). Second sight was being ridiculed as being limited ‘to a doting old woman or a hypochondriacal tailor’ (p. 159).
Hace 5 días · Bishop Kilkenny's benefaction, already referred to in another connexion, was the first of its kind (1256), and in 1284 Kilkenny's successor in the see of Ely, Hugh de Balsham, founded the first College, Peterhouse.
