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James Essinger, Jacquard's Web: How a hand loom led to the birth of the information age. Oxford UP, 2004.

story of de Prony's logarithmic tables; they produced 17 manuscript folio volumes and he wanted them to be printed, even commissioned plates, but proved too costly in the end (60)

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