Show the world you have invented a machine that can slice potatoes and someone will ask if it can slice a pineapple (so said Charles Babbage). In thirteen unorthodox pieces, biographers, historians, poets, and critics explore aspects of the powerful and sometimes difficult relationship of science and culture over two centuries, from the revolutionary science/politics of the 1790s to the machine-dreams of the present.
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