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Download The Bride of Science (HB): A Life of Ada Lovelace, by Benjamin Woolley

Download The Bride of Science (HB): A Life of Ada Lovelace, by Benjamin Woolley

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The Bride of Science (HB): A Life of Ada Lovelace, by Benjamin Woolley

The Bride of Science (HB): A Life of Ada Lovelace, by Benjamin Woolley


The Bride of Science (HB): A Life of Ada Lovelace, by Benjamin Woolley


Download The Bride of Science (HB): A Life of Ada Lovelace, by Benjamin Woolley

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The Bride of Science (HB): A Life of Ada Lovelace, by Benjamin Woolley

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Ada Lovelace, the result of Lord Byron's short- lived marriage to Annabella Milbanke, is an extraordinary figure in 19th-century society. Not only was she the daughter of a celebrity, but she was the first computer programmer the world has known. From the moment she was born, in 1815, Ada was a controversial figure. Her mother, a woman known for her piety and intellect, had fled the marital home taking her three-week-old baby with her. In this first comprehensive biography of Lovelace, Benjamin Woolley contends that the child embodied a chasm between Romanticism as represented by her father, and Reason as represented by his wife. He examines how, as an adult, she struggled to reconcile these opposites by creating a "poetical science". But first he deals with her childhood. We learn of Annabella's ferocious educational regime, and a young girl who, understandably, took refuge in the imagination. Woolley's achievement is in making accessible the scientific theories that absorbed Lovelace and that led to her breakthrough in computer science. His approach to her work is grounded in her domestic setting which he portrays as oppressive, and as hastening her early death in 1852 from cervical cancer. The Bride of Science is a powerful piece of work, entirely appropriate for a revolutionary woman. --Lilian Pizzichini

Synopsis

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 colourful 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. Ada came to embody these new polarities. She struggled to reconcile them and they tore her apart.

Produktinformation

Gebundene Ausgabe: 432 Seiten

Verlag: Macmillan; Auflage: First Edition (27. August 1999)

Sprache: Englisch

ISBN-10: 0333724364

ISBN-13: 978-0333724361

Größe und/oder Gewicht:

15,9 x 3,2 x 24,1 cm

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Amazon Bestseller-Rang:

Nr. 709.777 in Fremdsprachige Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Fremdsprachige Bücher)

Just an amazing story about the remarkable daughter of the "bad, mad, and dangerous to know" Lord Byron, more notorious in his time for his quasi-rock-star embodiment of the Romantic movement and the scandals about his private life than for his poetry. (I'm not saying it wasn't popular, but his not-so-private private life scooped it pretty thoroughly.) Ada Lovelace, his daughter, survived a tumultuous upbringing, an absent father, an almost pathologically embittered mother, and the limitations placed on women at the time to become a first-rate mathematician and a brave visionary who tried to find a middle ground between the rationality of science and the beliefs of the Romantics, something many brilliant people have tried to do ever since. She's probably best-known for writing the world's first computer language, for Charles Babbage's Difference Engine. In the 1950s the U.S. Department of Defense named an early (and very buggy) modern computer language ADA in her honor.

I've read this book several times and am always fully engaged. The author does a great job of illuminating the birth of the "machine age" during the Victorian times through its tragic hero Ada Lovelace King. I find it especially relevant as we are currently in our own time of transformation with technology, design, commerce and art. Its a great opportunity to read the story of this headstrong and learned woman, who is widely considered the first programmer!

More than just a biography of Ada Lovelace Byron, this is a narrative of the social setting of early 19th century England. In the span of under 4 decades of Ada's life, Charles Babbage had demonstrated his Difference Engine with a working model, created the design for his Analytical Engine, many scientists were performing experiments related to electricity and magnetism, and some were dabbling in their relationship to the human mind, the great railway system emerged with the steam powered engine making distances shorter and travel less of a hardship. The debates surrounding progress of science versus keeping the tranquility of nature undisturbed are well represented in this narrative.The story covers a lot of the scandals of incest associated with Byron and his separation from his wife - this separation dominated Ada's life and had far-reaching effects on her children as well. Ada's mother Annabella - Lady Byron comes across as a domineering, influential, cruel and manipulative woman.Speculation, reconstruction, historical evidence all play their parts in this most fascinating story of the "Enchantress of Numbers" as Ada came to be known. This well written biography talks about Ada's early interest in flying and other "impossible" projects, absorption with mesmerism, phrenology, and above all, her quest for tying the cold mathematical world (of her mother) to the hot, passionate, poetic world of her father. Due to the unique legacy of her parents, Ada sees her purpose in life as one of somehow reconciling the two disparate worlds.Despite her mother's best efforts to keep Byronic passions out of Ada's personality, those are what Ada naturally leans towards, as is evident from her failed elopement in her teens, then several "episodes" with men at various points in her life, and her obsession with gambling, her (medically prescribed) consumption of laudanum / opium, and subsequent addiction. Her professional relationship with several imminent scientists including Charles Babbage, her writing of "notes" on scientific subjects, study of mathematics in her adulthood, her desperation to immerse herself in science in order to avoid her father's legacy - in spite of all her efforts Ada proves to be a Byron more than a Milbanke (her mother's maiden name).The human story is more in evidence than the story of a scientific or mathematical mind. So if you are looking for just facts and details related to Ada as a scientist or "first computer programmer" this book will not be enough.

Romance and Byron certainly reign supreme in this book. Science, however, is lacking. A very interesting account of Byron and his brief marriage fills the first quarter of the book. His daughter, Ada, is the subject of the other three-quarters. The book uses Ada as a biographical example of the ever-more-intense clash between Reason (science, industry, etc) and Romance (poetry, religion, arts, etc). Ada seems to be unable to cope with this conflict within herself and the author details several periods of mental illness. Though the biography of Ada Lovelace is intriguing, the main focus is on the society in which she lived. A fascinating history lesson, and an eye-opening look into a hitherto neglected woman. That said, there are quiet a few mispellings (not unusual for a first edition). If you are interested in the period, Byron, or love biographies - this is a good choice. If your bent runs to the specific scientific contributions or more widely to a reflection on the conflict between Romance and Reason, you might try another work such as the Calculating Passion of Ada Byron or Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers (though neither of those includes the actual program she wrote) and Victorian Minds/a Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and Ideologies in Transition or In Pursuit of a Scientific Culture : Science, Art, and Society in the Victorian Age.

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