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[[File:Ada Lovelace portrait.jpg|thumbnail| The [[intellectual]], the [[moral]], the [[religious]] seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.]] |
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[[File:Carpenter portrait of Ada Lovelace - detail.png|thumbnail| [[Religion]] to me is [[science]], and [[science]] is religion. In that deeply-felt truth lies the secret of my intense devotion to the reading of [[God]]'s natural works. It is reading Him. His will — His [[intelligence]] ]] |
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'''[[w:Ada Lovelace|Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace]]''' (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron and now commonly known as '''Ada Lovelace''', was an English [[mathematics|mathematician]] and writer, daughter of the poet [[Lord Byron]]. She is chiefly known for her work on [[Charles Babbage]]'s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the [[w:Analytical Engine|Analytical Engine]]. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine. Because of this, she is often described as the world's first computer programmer, or the "mother of computer programming". |
'''[[w:Ada Lovelace|Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace]]''' (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron and now commonly known as '''Ada Lovelace''', was an English [[mathematics|mathematician]] and writer, daughter of the poet [[Lord Byron]]. She is chiefly known for her work on [[Charles Babbage]]'s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the [[w:Analytical Engine|Analytical Engine]]. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine. Because of this, she is often described as the world's first computer programmer, or the "mother of computer programming". |
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* Our family are an alternate stratification of [[poetry]] and [[mathematics]]. |
* Our family are an alternate stratification of [[poetry]] and [[mathematics]]. |
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** In a letter to [[w:Andrew Crosse|Andrew Crosse]], as quoted in [[w:Eugen Kölbing|Eugen Kölbing]]'s ''[https://archive.org/stream/englischestudien19leipuoft#page/156/mode/1up Englische Studien, Volume 19]'' (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter", p. 156 |
** In a letter to [[w:Andrew Crosse|Andrew Crosse]], as quoted in [[w:Eugen Kölbing|Eugen Kölbing]]'s ''[https://archive.org/stream/englischestudien19leipuoft#page/156/mode/1up Englische Studien, Volume 19]'' (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter", p. 156 |
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* Circumstances have been such, that I have lived almost entirely secluded for some time. Those who are much in earnest and with single minds devoted to any great object in life , must find this occasionally inevitable.... You will wonder at having heard nothing from me; but you have experience and candour enough to perceive and know that '''[[God]] has not given to us (in ''this'' state of existence) more than very limited powers of expression of one's ideas and feelings'''... I shall be very desirous of again seeing you. You know what that means from me , and that it is no form, but the simple expression and result of '''the respect and attraction I feel for a mind that ventures to read direct in [[God]]'s own book,''' and not merely thro' man's translation of that same vast and mighty work. |
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** In a letter to [[w:Andrew Crosse|Andrew Crosse]], as quoted in [[w:Eugen Kölbing|Eugen Kölbing]]'s ''[https://archive.org/stream/englischestudien19leipuoft#page/157/mode/1up Englische Studien, Volume 19]'' (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter", p. 157 |
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* Perhaps you have felt already, from the tone of my letter, that '''I am more than ever now thebride of science. [[Religion]] to me is [[science]], and [[science]] is religion. In that deeply-felt truth lies the secret of my intense devotion to the reading of [[God]]'s [[nature|natural]] works. It is reading Him. His will — His [[intelligence]] ; and this again is learning to obey and to follow (to the best of our power) that will! For he who reads, who ''interprets'' the [[w:Divinity|Divinity]] with a true and simple [[heart]], then obeys and submits in acts and feelings as by an impupulse and instinct. He can't help doing so. At least, it appears so to me.''' |
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** ''[https://archive.org/stream/englischestudien19leipuoft#page/157/mode/1up Englische Studien, Volume 19]'' (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter", p. 157-158 |
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* '''When I behold the scientific and so-called [[philosophy|philosophers]] full of [[selfish]] feelings, and of a tenency to [[war]] against circumstances and [[God|Providence]], I say to myself: ''They'' are not true priests, ''they'' are but half [[prophet]]s — it not absolutely false ones. They have read the great page simply with the physical eye, and with none of the [[spirit]] within. The [[intellectual]], the [[moral]], the [[religious]] seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole... That [[God]] is one, and that all the works and the [[feelings]] He has called into existence are ONE; this is a [[truth]] (a [[Bible|biblical]] and scriptural truth too) not in my opinion developed to the apprehension of most people in its really deep and unfanthomable meaning. There is too much tendency to making ''separate'' and ''independent bundles'' of both the physical and the [[moral]] facts of the [[universe]]. Whereas, all and everything is naturally related and interconnected. A volume could I write you on this subject. |
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** In a letter to [[w:Andrew Crosse|Andrew Crosse]], as quoted in [[w:Eugen Kölbing|Eugen Kölbing]]'s ''[https://archive.org/stream/englischestudien19leipuoft#page/158/mode/1up Englische Studien, Volume 19]'' (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter", p. 158 |
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* With all my wiry power and strength, I am prone at times to bodily [[suffering]]s, connected chiefly with the digestive organs, of no common degree or king. '''I do not regret the sufferings and peculiaties of my physical constitution. They have taught me, and continue to [[teach]] me, that which I think nothing else could have developed. It is a [[force]] and control put upon me by [[God|Providence]] which I ''must'' obey. And the effects of this continual disciple of facts are mighty. They ''tame'' the in the best sense of that word, and they ''fan'' into existence a [[Pureness|pure]], [[bright]], [[holy]], unselfish flame within that sheds cheerfulness and [[light]] on many.'''<br> — Ever yours truly. "A. A. Lovelace." |
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** In a letter to [[w:Andrew Crosse|Andrew Crosse]], as quoted in [[w:Eugen Kölbing|Eugen Kölbing]]'s ''[https://archive.org/stream/englischestudien19leipuoft#page/158/mode/1up Englische Studien, Volume 19]'' (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter", p. 158 |
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Revision as of 17:50, 31 January 2015
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron and now commonly known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer, daughter of the poet Lord Byron. She is chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine. Because of this, she is often described as the world's first computer programmer, or the "mother of computer programming".
Quotes
- Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.
- In a letter to Andrew Crosse, as quoted in Eugen Kölbing's Englische Studien, Volume 19 (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter", p. 156
