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5 Sep 2024 01:25:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Babbage  
From: Invisible
Date: 8 Oct 2009 10:25:58
Message: <4acdf676$1@news.povray.org>
>> Now, I wonder which museum has the logical, analytical half of his brain? 
>> ;-)
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/head_first_only/3776072152/
> It looks like the left half (IIRC the analytical one) is at the London 
> Science Museum.

...which would make sense, given that mathematics and logic are what 
he's famous for. And the jar is sitting next to a reconstructed model of 
his Difference Engine.

> ROTFL  it inspired T. Pratchett ?  :D 

Could be. He was a crazy Victorian inventor, after all...


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