More significant is her allegedly adulterous relationship with John Crosse
—son of scientist Andrew Crosse
—whom she had approached for help with her work on the nervous system.
Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan, 1999.
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Ada met him in 1844 and...
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...