JEVONS, WILLIAM STANLEY. The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method . . . Third Edition. Frontispiece showing Jevons's logic machine. 8vo, original cloth, shaken and lightly soiled, short tear at top of spine. London, 1879
First published in 1874. Jevons's logic machine, first demonstrated by him in 1870 and described here on pages 107-113, " . . . was the first . . . with enough power to solve complicated problems with superhuman speed"--Hook & Norman, page 264. New Palgrave II, 1009. With a 1901 2-page ALS on routine matters from Jevons's son to Professor Henry Crews, in portion of holograph envelope mounted on front endpaper.<
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