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Boesel, Rudolf Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus
B 183
Boesel, Rudolf
B 183
Die Lochkarte im Fabrikbetrieb. Rationalisierung
des industriellen Rechnungswesen mit Hilfe des
Lochkartenverfahrens.
Year: 1930
Place: Berlin
Publisher: Carl Heymann
Edition: unknown, likely 1st
Language: German
Figures: 6 photographic plates
Binding: original paper wrappers
Pagination: pp. [2],100
Collation: π 1 1–6 8 7 2
Size: 296x201 mm
This is a tutorial on the use of the Powers punched
card tabulating equipment in industrial accounting. In
Powers tabulating machine, B 183
general, the Powers equipment is similar in function to
the punched card tabulating equipment produced by IBM
but differs in that while the IBM equipment transmits its
signals via electrical connections, the Powers equipment
performs the same job mechanically via moving wires.
Illustrations available:
Title page
Powers tabulating machine
B 184
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (ca.480–524/525)
Arithmetica Boetij
Year: 1488
Place: Augsburg
Publisher: Erhard Ratdolt
Edition: 1st
Language: Latin
Figures: 7 pp. of ms. notes and figures at end
Binding: modern brown morocco
Pagination: ff. 48
Collation: a–f 8
Size: 195x147 mm
Reference: Smi Rara, p. 25; Goff IAL, B828; Rcrdi BMI I, p.
139
From a distinguished patrician family, Boethius has
been described as the last Roman and the first scholastic
philosopher. While little is known of his early life and
how he obtained his formidable Greek education,
it is speculated that he studied in either Athens or
Alexandria. Boethius’s abilities secured him one of the
highest positions in the Ostrogothic kingdom, but the
Arian king Theodoric, apparently suspecting a plot with
the Byzantine emperor Justin I, had him arrested and
executed. While awaiting execution, he wrote his famous
philosophical work Consolatione Philosophiae.
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