Sail e Máquina analítica de Babbage: o que têm em comum

1. Passo 1. Sail — faz parte de — Sailing ship. Sails drive the ship.
2. Passo 2. Sailing ship — utiliza — Mercator projection. Navigating along straight rhumb lines.
3. Passo 3. Mercator projection — utiliza — Gutenberg printing press. Maps were printed in large numbers.
4. Passo 4. Gutenberg printing press — funciona como — Jacquard loom. An analogy, not proven influence: both set type and a chain of punched cards are a replaceable pattern that a machine reproduces over and over.
5. Passo 5. Jacquard loom — inspirou — Máquina analítica de Babbage. Babbage borrowed Jacquard’s punched cards directly for entering operations and data; Ada Lovelace compared the machine to the Jacquard loom.

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