Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.
148-9, 180
Charles Babbage
Standard Name: Babbage, Charles
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Augusta Ada Byron | AAB
remained close friends with Mary Somerville's family, and particularly with her eldest son by her first marriage, Woronzow Greig
, for the rest of her life. Somerville not only fostered Ada's mathematical aptitude, but... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | In London the Somervilles enjoyed participating in a rich scientific community: Mary's time there was much happier than during her first marriage. She attended many lectures at the Royal Institution
, and took lessons in... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy
, where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron
(Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray
. At London parties... |
| Instructor | Augusta Ada Byron | Lady Byron employed a number of governesses to educate the young AAB
at their various country homes. From the age of five Ada received full-time instruction in arithmetic, grammar, spelling, reading, music, geography, drawing, and... |
| Literary responses | Augusta Ada Byron | AAB
also has a significant web presence. The Ada Project
, originally located at Yale
and an official project of the Association for Computer Machinery
's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing, is... |
| Occupation | Augusta Ada Byron | AAB
first met inventor Charles Babbage
, whose early computer she later became the first to program. Byron, Augusta Ada. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. Editor Toole, Betty A., Strawberry Press, 1992. 48 Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan, 1999. 1 |
| Author summary | Augusta Ada Byron | AAB
's sole publication is A Sketch of the Analytical Engine, her highly praised explication and illustration of Charles Babbage
's Analytical Engine. Many now claim that her Sketch constitutes the first example of... |
| Publishing | Augusta Ada Byron | Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace
, published A Sketch of the Analytical Engine, a translation from Luigi Menabrea
's work on Charles Babbage
's Analytical Engine. Her annotations tripled the length of the original. Byron, Augusta Ada. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. Editor Toole, Betty A., Strawberry Press, 1992. xv Baum, Joan. The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron. Archon Books, 1986. 1, 67 |
| Reception | Augusta Ada Byron | On the date designated as Ada Lovelace Day, a small exhibition opened at the Science Museum
in London. The portraits, letters, and artefacts on display include a Jacquard loom of the punchcard type that... |
| Textual Production | Augusta Ada Byron | Babbage
's Analytical Engine was a forerunner of the modern computer (which was not built until the late twentieth century, although Babbage drafted more than thirty volumes of plans and designs for it during the... |
| Textual Production | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | BBBD
was a conscientious and entertaining letter-writer with a large circle of correspondents. The Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
holds a collection of her correspondence from the 1840s with Frances Parker, Countess of Morley |
Timeline
1750: The progressive Pope Benedict XIV appointed...
Building item
1750
The progressive Pope Benedict XIV
appointed a woman, Maria Gaetana Agnesi
(1718-99), as professor of mathematics at the University of Bologna
.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Babbage
1822: Charles Babbage developed his Difference...
National or international item
1822
Charles Babbage
developed his Difference Engine, a machine for calculating values of logarithms and trigonometric functions.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
283
Stein, Dorothy. Ada: A Life and a Legacy. MIT Press, 1985.
31-2
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
London Science Museum,. Babbage’s Calculating Engines 1832-71. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/collections/treasures/babb2.asp.
1830: Charles Babbage published Reflections on...
Writing climate item
1830
Charles Babbage
published Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, an excoriating attack on the Royal Society
and a call for science to be given a leadership role in British society, with proper...
27 September 1831: The British Association for the Advancement...
National or international item
27 September 1831
The British Association for the Advancement of Science
(BAAS) was founded at a meeting in York.
Cannon, Susan Faye. Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period. Dawson; Science History Publications, 1978.
130, 201, 216
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
386-7
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
108, 129
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
I: 95
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
175
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
180-1
Autumn 1834: Charles Babbage envisioned the Analytical...
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Autumn 1834
Charles Babbage
envisioned the Analytical Engine or calculating machine, an advance on his previous work on the Difference Engine and precursor to the modern computer.
Hyman, Anthony. Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer. Princeton University Press, 1982.
1, 164-6, 253
Hyman, Anthony, editor. Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
242
Swade, Doron. Charles Babbage and his Calculating Engines. Science Museum, 1991.
30
Stanley, Autumn. Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology. Scarecrow Press, 1993.
633
Baum, Joan. The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron. Archon Books, 1986.
66ff, 105
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