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  1. The winter of raw computers: the history of the lunar and planetary reductions of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.Daniel Belteki - 2023 - British Journal for the History of Science 56 (1):65-81.
    In 1839 the working hours of the computers employed on the lunar and planetary reductions of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich were reduced from eleven hours to eight hours. Previous historians have explained this decrease by reference to the generally benevolent nature of the manager of the reductions, George Biddell Airy. By contrast, this article uses the letters and notes exchanged between Airy and the computers to demonstrate that the change in the working hours originated from the computers as a reaction (...)
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