The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron's Daughter
by Woolley, Benjamin
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0333724364
- ISBN 13
- 9780333724361
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About This Item
Macmillan , 1999 8vo (24 cm), XII, 416 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, was born in 1815, and died aged 36. She was connected with some of the most influential and colorful characters of the age: Charles Dickens, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin and Charles Babbage. It was her work with Babbage that led to her being credited with the invention of computer programming and to her name being adopted for the programming language that controls the US military machine. However, what makes her story is not her role as a dispassionate witness or great inventor. It is the way she personified the seismic historical changes taking place. This was the era when fissures began to open up in culture: romance split away from reason, instinct from intellect, art from science.
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007246
- Title
- The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron's Daughter
- Author
- Woolley, Benjamin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0333724364
- ISBN 13
- 9780333724361
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Science;
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