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Table of Contents Preface: A Grandmother?s Secret Life Section I: Astronomy and the Division of Labor 1672 - 1880 Chapter 1: The First Anticipated Return: Halley?s Comet 1758 Chapter 2: The Children of Adam Smith Chapter 3: The Celestial Factory: Halley?s Comet 1835 Chapter 4: The American Prime Meridian Chapter 5: A Carpet for the Computing Room Section II: Mass Production and New Fields of Science 1880 - 1929 Chapter 6: Looking Forward, Looking Backward: Machinery 1893 Chapter 7: Darwin?s Cousins Chapter 8: Breaking from the Ellipse: Halley?s Comet 1910 Chapter 9: Captains of Academe Chapter 10: War Production Chapter 11: Fruits of the Conflict: Machinery 1922 Section III: Professional Computers and an Independent Discipline 1929 ? 1964 Chapter 12: The Best of Bad Times Chapter 13: Scientific Relief Chapter 14: Tools of the Trade: Machinery 1937 Chapter 15: Professional Ambition Chapter 16: New York Mid-town Glide Bomb Club Chapter 17: The Victor?s Share Chapter 18: Only I Alone am Left to Tell Thee Epilogue: Halley?s Comet 1986 Appendix I: Recurring Characters, Institutions and Concepts Acknowledgements, Research Notes and Bibliography
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Calculus -- History.
Science -- Mathematics -- History.