Erwin Tomash Library I chapter.pdf · Pythagoras. His Introduction arithmetica was one of the few works on arithmetic (mainly its theoretical and mystical, rather than practical,

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Iamblichus of Chalcis IBM - [IBM Deutschland -Internationale Buro Maschinen]

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Gilbert, De magnete, 1600

I 1 Iamblichus of Chalcis (ca.283–ca.330)

Arithmeticam introductionem, et de fato. Nunc primum eeditus, in latinum sermonem conversus, notis perpetuis illustratus à Samuele Tennulio, accedit Joachimi Camerarii Explicatio in duos libros Nicomachi, cum indice rerum & verborum locupletissimo.

b/w: Camerarius, Joachim; Explicatio Joachimi Camerarii Papebergensis, 1667

Year: 1668 Place: Arnheim-Deventer Publisher: Johann Fridericum Hagium Edition: 1st (Latin) Language: Latin Figures: engraved frontispiece Binding: contemporary vellum Pagination: pp. [12], 181, [3] Collation: ***6A–Z4 Size: 188x147 mm

Nicomachus (ca.100 AD) was a Greek follower of Pythagoras. His Introduction arithmetica was one of

the few works on arithmetic (mainly its theoretical and mystical, rather than practical, aspects) to survive and consequently was famous during the Middle Ages. (See entries for Boethius).

Iamblichus (also known as Jamblicus) wrote a commentary on the works of Nicomachus. Although several early commentaries on Nicomachus have survived, this one is the most familiar. It is presented here in the original Greek with the Latin translation in the next column.

Camerarius (1500–1574) was a professor of classics in Tubingen and Leipzig. His commentary on Nicomachuswas the best of those written during the Renaissance. It would have been natural to put these two commentaries together in one volume.

The frontispiece shows hypothetical portraits of several Greek philosophers/mathematicians.

Illustrations available:Title page (color)FrontispieceSample page of Iamblicus Greek and Latin versionsCamerarius title page

IBM - [IBM Deutschland - Internationale Buro Maschinen]See IBM - [International Business Machines

Company]; Erfindung und Entwicklung des IBM Lochkarten-Verfahrens.

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[IBM] - Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft

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Language: GermanBinding: original paper wrappersPagination: pp. 19, [1]Size: 297x210 mm

This German booklet gives a brief history of Herman Hollerith and his invention of the census tabulating machine. It contains an artist’s renditions of the IBM manufacturing plants in Berlin, Sindelfingen and Böblingen.

Illustrations available: Title page Berlin plantSindelfingen and Böblingen plants

I 2 [IBM] - Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft

Denkschrift zur Einweihung der neuen Arbeitsståtte der Deutschen Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft m.b.h.

Year: 1934Place: BerlinPublisher: Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen G.m.b.H.Edition: n/eLanguage: GermanFigures: photographs in textBinding: original cloth boardsPagination: pp. 46Size: 298x204 mm

In 1934, just a year before its twenty-fifth anniversary (see entry for IBM; Festschrift, 1935), the German subsidiary of IBM held a celebration in which the firm dedicated itself to greater performance. There is very little of technical interest in this work, but the photographs of Nazi insignia and presence of Nazi officials at the ceremony speak volumes about the times.

Illustrations available:Title pageGeneral manager Heidinger speakingStabsleiter Schmeer speaking

I 3 IBM - [International Business Machines Company]

Erfindung und Entwicklung des IBM Lochkarten-Verfahrens

Year: 1952Place: n/pPublisher: n/pEdition: 1st

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I 4 [IBM] - Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft

Festschrift zur 25-Jahrfeier der Deutschen Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft

Year: 1935Place: BerlinPublisher: Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen G.m.b.H.Edition: n/eLanguage: GermanBinding: original cloth boardsPagination: pp. 133, [1]Collation: 1–8893

Size: 300x210 mm

The German subsidiary of IBM was known by its acronym DEHOMAG (Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft). This volume celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of DEHOMAG. It contains a description of the company, its origins, the product line and a biography of Herman Hollerith—whose family originated in Germany.

Illustrations available:Title pageHollerith portraitHollerith biography (5 pages)Hollerith family treePhotographs of Hollerith relatives (2 pages)

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I 5 [IBM] - Grosch, Herbert Reuben John (1918–), editor

Proceedings-scientific computation forum-1948 Year: 1950 Place: New York Publisher: International Business Machines Edition: 1st Language: English Binding: original cloth boards Pagination: pp. [8], 9–126, [2] Size: 280x215 mm


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Herb Grosch was a major figure in the early days of electronic computers. He was trained as an astronomer and worked for both G.E. and IBM. He was an early president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is best remembered for Grosch’s Law, which states that any computer twice as powerful as the one you currently use will cost four times as much.

Since 1940, IBM had been holding annual seminars for customers using its standard punched card accounting equipment for statistical purposes. This 1948 meeting (August 23–26) was the first to concentrate on large-scale scientific computing applications. This forum was held before the days of the electronic computer (except for ENIAC and the prototype Baby machine at Manchester, which had just run its first program). All the papers are concerned with the uses of IBM’s punched card equipment (including its newer, more powerful machines such as the model 602 calculating punch).

Illustrations available:Title pageTable of contents

This catalog (complete with original mailing envelope) illustrates IBM’s products ranging from butcher’s scales, meat choppers and slicers, accounting machines and card punches to a variety of time clocks. It illustrates the roots of IBM as a major supplier of items other than punched card and computing machines. One illustration shows an early version of an IBM punched card with round holes.

Illustrations available: Title page Weigh scales, meat choppers, and slicersRound-hole cardTime clocks

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I 6 IBM - [International Business Machines Company]

Product CatalogYear: ca. 1926Place: New YorkPublisher: IBMEdition: unknownLanguage: EnglishBinding: original paper wrappersPagination: pp. 3–42Size: 175x124 mm

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I 7 [IBM] - Hurd, Cuthbert C. (1911–1996), editor

Proceedings-seminar on scientific computation - November 1949

Year: 1950 Place: New York Publisher: International Business Machines Edition: 1st Language: English Binding: original cloth boards; with dust jacket Pagination: pp. [8], 9–109, [3] Size: 277x212 mm

Hurd was a mathematician who joined IBM in 1949. He became chief scientific officer and eventually a vice-president. He was intimately involved with many of its early computer developments from the time of the IBM 701 onward.

This seminar was held before any electronic computers were available in the U.S. (those at Manchester and Cambridge were just becoming operational) and several years before IBM had any commercially available computer products. The proceedings are notable for an early description of the IBM Card Programmed Calculator (CPC), which had been produced at the request of Northrup Aircraft, and a report of an early application of the CPC in the calculation of a cam design.

Illustrations available: Title pageTable of contents

Year: 1951 Place: New York Publisher: International Business Machines Edition: 1st Language: English Binding: original cloth boards; with dust jacket Pagination: pp. [12], 13–148 Size: 280x213 mm

This is a continuation of the IBM seminars on scientific computation. One paper describes a pair of IBM relay calculators constructed for the Ballistics Research Laboratory at Aberdeen, MD. These were useful, but their limited storage and programming capabilities hampered their use in large-scale problems. The paper reports on an experiment of connecting them together, the duplex arrangement being more useful than the two individual machines. This idea, while novel, was not new. Two machines connected together was either a current working reality or under development in equipment being constructed at Bell Laboratories, Harvard and other centers at the time.

Illustrations available: Title page

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Proceedings-industrial computation seminar- September 1950

Year: 1951 Place: New York Publisher: International Business Machines Edition: 1st Language: English Binding: original cloth boards; with dust jacket Pagination: pp. [12], 13–103 Size: 280x215 mm

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As the title indicates, IBM sought to broaden the subject matter of these seminars. The large number of these seminars held in a short period of time testifies to the increasing interest in these techniques.



Proceedings-computation seminar-August 1951 Year: 1951 Place: New York Publisher: International Business Machines Edition: 1st Language: English Binding: original cloth boards; with dust jacket Pagination: pp. [12], 13–148 Size: 280x215 mm.

This was the last of the seminars organized by Cuthbert Hurd.


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The slide rule Year: 1925Place: Scranton, PAPublisher: International Textbook CompanyEdition: reprintLanguage: EnglishBinding: original paper wrappersPagination: pp. 59, [1], 2, [2]Size: 223x150 mm

The first edition of this slide rule instruction booklet was printed in 1879. It gave detailed instructions on the use of the slide rule for multiplication, division, roots and powers. An examination is included at the end. The student is given the answers but must describe how they are found using the slide rule.


Imbrechts, Jose Diez, translatorSee Babbage, Charles; Tratado de mecánica práctica

y economia politica que con el titulo de Economia de máquinas y manufacturas escribe in Inglis, C. Babbage traducido de la 3rd edicion y ampliado con notas.

I 12 Imeson, Charles V.

The Maya calendar adapted to the slide rule

Year: 1935Place: New YorkPublisher: Alma Egan Hyatt FoundationEdition: OffprintLanguage: EnglishBinding: original printed paper wrappersPagination: pp. 174–178 Size: 270x222 mm

The Maya calendar is difficult to use when attempting to determine the elapsed time between two dates. Imeson devised a device similar to a circular slide rule to aid in the process.

Illustrations available: Title page Circular slide rule

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I 13 Institute of Radio Engineers

Convention record of the I. R. E. 1953–1956 national convention.

Year: 1954–1956Place: New YorkPublisher: Institute of Radio EngineersEdition: 1stLanguage: EnglishBinding: boards over original paper wrappersPagination: pp. 71Size: 272x204 mm

The IRE and, in particular, its group interested in computers, which was to become the IEEE Computer Society—one of the two major computer organizations in the U.S. (the other being the ACM).

This work is a sammelband (binding together of a set of works) consisting of reports from four IRE National Conventions (1953–1956) on computer-oriented sessions held during the meetings. The first two are devoted mainly to analog equipment (but include a paper on the IBM 701 electrostatic memory unit) while the third considers diagnostic and reliability situations in some of the major computers then in operation (Whirlwind, IBM 701, the IAS machine, UNIVAC and EDSAC).

This one volume represents the convention records for four years and graphically illustrates the growing interest in digital computers. Each year the volume of material was larger and more sophisticated. Some of the most interesting items are

Daggett, N. L. and E. S. Rich

Diagnostic programs and marginal checking the Whirlwind I computer. In Convention Record of the I. R. E. Part 7 - Electronic computers. March 23-26, 1953.

Eckert, John Adam Presper, Jr. (1919–1995)

Checking circuits and diagnostic routines. In Convention Record of the I. R. E. Part 7 - Electronic computers. March 23–26, 1953.

Estrin, Gerald

Diagnosis and prediction of malfunctions in the computing machine at the Institute for Advanced Study. In Convention Record of the I. R. E. Part 7 - Electronic computers. March 23–26, 1953.

Walters, L. R.

Diagnostic programing techniques for the IBM Type 701 E. D. P. M. In Convention Record of the I. R. E. Part 7 - Electronic computers. March 23–26, 1953.

Wilkes, Maurice Vincent (1913–); Montgomery Phister and S. A. Barton,

Experience with marginal checking circuits and automatic routining of the EDSAC. In Convention Record of the I. R. E. Part 7 - Electronic computers. March 23–26, 1953.

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Convention record of the I. R. E. 1953 national convention. Part 7 - electronic computers. March 23–26, 1953

b/w: the convention records for 1954, 1955, and 1956

Year: 1953 Place: New York Publisher: Institute of Radio Engineers Edition: 1st Language: English Binding: boards over original paper wrappers Pagination: pp. 71 Size: 272x204 mm

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See the entry for Institute of Radio Engineers, Convention record of the I. R. E. 1953–1956 national convention.



Convention record of the I. R. E. 1954 national convention. Part 4 - electronic computers and information theory. March 22–25, 1954






Convention record of the I. R. E. 1955 national convention. Part 4 - computers, information theory, automatic control. March 21–24, 1955






Convention record of the I. R. E. 1956 national

convention. Part 4 - computers, information theory, automatic control. March 19–22, 1956






Report of proceedings symposium on information theory. London, England September, 1950

Year: 1953 Place: New York Publisher: Institute of Radio Engineers Edition: 1st Language: English Figures: 18 unnumbered pages of drawings Binding: original paper wrappers Pagination: pp. [10], 208, [1] Size: 326x215 mm

This symposium is interesting because it contains papers by such notables as Claude Shannon, W. Grey Walter and many other early workers in the area.



Symposium on statistical methods in communication engineering. August 17–18, 1953. Berkeley, CA.

Year: 1954 Place: New York Publisher: Institute of Radio Engineers Edition: 1st Language: English Binding: boards over original paper wrappers Pagination: pp. 159, [1] Size: 275x205 mm

This contains a paper by Benoit Mandelbrot, who was later to become famous as the creator of the Mandelbrot

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Set used in graphics applications. The table of contents is on the title page.


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An attempt to represent the mathematical instruments and their more simple uses in their application to the producing of lines, surfaces, & c. in two books

Year: ca.1830 Place: n/pEdition: manuscript Language: English Binding: three-quarter leather over marbled boards Pagination: pp. [2], 5–88, [30] Size: 228x184 mm

This manuscript is divided into three sections—the third apparently not contemplated when the work was begun. The first, only seven pages, treats the basic geometry of compass and ruler; the second considers the various scales, compasses, protractors and sector usually found in a box of instruments; and the third, again short, contains various pencil sketches and methods for creating perspective diagrams. The section dealing with the sector is, by far, the most comprehensive and interesting in the work. The various plates are all meticulously drawn, usually in two colors of ink. The manuscript has been dated from the paper watermark, which reads “1828.”

Illustrations available: Title pageFirst page of the sector

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A description of the pocket case of mathematical instruments; together with the use of the several instruments therein contained; and the most common and necessary problems, resolvable by their help: Calculated for the improvement of beginners, as well as the ease of masters, in instructing them. To which is added, a description and uses of the pocket quadrant, commonly called Gunter’s quadrant.

Year: 1769 Place: London Publisher: For the author by Henry Pyefinch Edition: 1st Language: English Figures: 3 folding plates Binding: contemporary calf; rebacked; red leather label Pagination: pp. [4], 100 Collation: π2A–F8G2 Size: 153x93 mm

Sector, I 20

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This is a small book describing the usual drawing instruments and a Gunter’s quadrant. As might be expected, the description of the sector, which is not illustrated, gets the majority of attention in the section on instruments.


I 22 Intorcetta, Prospero

La science des Chinois.

b/w: Briggs, Henry; Logarithmicall arithmeticke. b/w: de Decker, Ezechiel; Tweede deel van de nievwe

tel-konst ofte wonderliicke konstighe tafel, inhoudende de logarithmi.

b/w: Grüneberg, Christian; Sphinx arithmetica, exorum.

Year: 1672Place: ParisPublisher: Gervais Clousier et André CramoisyEdition: 2ndLanguage: FrenchBinding: 18th-century half-bound leather over marbled boards;

red leather label; red edgesPagination: pp. 24Collation: A–C4

Size: 300x185 mm

This item is secondary to the collection. It was only obtained because it was bound with the work Tweede deel van de nievwe tel-konst … by Ezechiël de Decker. Despite the title’s promising science, it is mainly a discussion of Confucius and his life.


I 23 Irwin, John B.

The expected performance of the EDVAC on some astronomical problems. In Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 60, No. 355, August 1948.

Year: 1948Place: PasadenaPublisher: Astronomical Society of the PacificEdition: reprintLanguage: EnglishBinding: offprintPagination: pp. 235–244Size: 230x163 mm

Irwin reports that the EDVAC, then being built at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, at the University of Pennsylvania, would be put through tests in the summer and fall of 1948 and would be available for use by astronomers shortly thereafter. In fact, the machine was very late in delivery to the Ballistics Research Laboratory and did not run its first successful application until October 28, 1951. While it may have been of interest to astronomers to hear of the capabilities of an electronic computer, they would not actually get to use one until much later.


Isoard, J. E., translatorSee Babbage, Charles; Science économique des

manufactures, traduit de l’Anglais de Ch. Babbage, sur le troisième édition par M. Isoard.

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Intorcetta, Prospero Isoard, J. E.

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