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| Title | Passages from the Life of a Philosopher |
| Author | Charles Babbage |
| Publisher | Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | May 30, 2006 |
| Length | 496 pages |
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