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Charles Babbage
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Collaboration with Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, became Babbage's intellectual partner in understanding and promoting the potential of the Analytical Engine. Lovelace recognized that the machine was capable of manipulating symbols beyond mere numbers, foreseeing applications in music composition and graphics generation. Her notes on the Engine famously included what is considered the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine—an algorithm for computing Bernoulli numbers. Lovelace’s insights were essential in… -
Romanticism
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Literature
Romantic literature championed narrative complexity, lyricism, and a fascination with the Gothic, the supernatural, and folk traditions. In poetry, the personal "I" often became the subject itself. Key literary figures include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Germany, Lord Byron in England, and Victor Hugo in France.
The structure of narrative poetry often reflected the subjective journey. The metric rhythm was sometimes chosen specifically because it exhibited a slight, almost imperceptible…