Older / non-standard Chinese transliteration of Charles Babbage (1791-1871), the English mathematician who designed the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine. Modern publications usually use
巴贝奇 (Bābèiqí);
巴贝炬 turns up in older corpus data and some Taiwan-published texts. Mapping: Bab-ba-ge →
巴(Bā)-
贝(bèi)-
炬(jù), with
炬 (torch) substituted for the more standard
奇 in this variant.
