The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter
Published on 16. February 2001
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-07-137329-6 (ISBN)
Description
Lady Lovelace, Ada Byron, daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, wrote a plan to use Charles Babbage's "thinking machine" to calculate Bernoulli numbers and to many she is considered to be the world's first computer programmer. Her attempts to reconcile the world of Romanticism and the world of science and machines, to create a "poetical science" helped her to produce a remarkable career in the Victorian age. This biography offers a look at her life in maths and science and analyzes the death of Romanticism and the birth of the machine age.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Illustrations
illustrations, portraits
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
797 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-137329-6 (9780071373296)
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Person
Benjamin Woolley is a writer and broadcaster. He has contributed to a range of BBC programs, including an edition of a Horizon on 'artificial life', and a Bookmark on Aldous Huxley. He is a freelance contributor to a variety of newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Telegraphs, The Guardian, The Independent and the Times Literary Supplement.
Content
A Thing of Dark Imaginings. Wanting One Sweet Weakness. Man's Dangerous Asset. The Devil's Drawing Room. A Deep Romantic Chasm. The Deformed Transformed. A Completely Professional Person. The Death of Romance. Clinging to a Phantom. Beyond the Shallow Senses. Epilogue. Notes and Further Reading. Select Bibliography. Index.