G.D. Falksen's Blog, page 1000
October 16, 2013
Click to view The Ouroboros Cycle Sassassins on GLOSSI.COM
So...
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So one of my fans who runs this Facebook group The Ouroboros Cycle Chat! made this “Welcome to The Ouroboros Cycle Fandom” book for other fans. I found it very amusing. I’m very glad people are having a lot of fun.
Circa 1900. “U.S.S. Newark, the apothecary.” 8x10 inch dry plate...
Circa 1900. “U.S.S. Newark, the apothecary.” 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by Edward Hart, Detroit Publishing Company.
Medical Dynameter and Scale of Equivalents
Engraved for the...
Medical Dynameter and Scale of Equivalents
Engraved for the Second American Edition of Paris’s Pharmacologia.
Explanation.
"This instrument will show on bare inspection the quantity of active matter contained in any given weight or measure (according as it is solid or liquid) of any Official compound, and the dose of any preparation which will be equivalent in strength to any given quantity of any other of the same class. The active principles, or Medicinal Bases, are distinguished by capital letters, place in colored squares; and each Official Preparation s given dose of an Official Preparation, we have only to bring such preparation to the number in question and the figure opposite the active ingredient answers the question, while those opposite to the other compounds of the same class denote the equivalent quantities. Unless otherwise expressed, the figures denote Grains for the solids, and Minim for the liquids."
A variety of antique apothecary amber glass bottles. To include;...
A variety of antique apothecary amber glass bottles. To include; Blood Life 5 gallon, Standard Laundry Bluing 12 ounces, UpJohn 1 gallon Mercresin (includes glass stopper), and three unmarked antique amber glass bottles.
October 15, 2013
EQUAL MEANS EQUAL
In the United States of America, all men are created equal. Women? Eh… not so much.
I am going to back this project and you could as well.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/3......
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/370388468/steampunk-pirates-bicycle-deck
^^ Steampunk airship pirate playing card deck any one?^^
Ada Lovelace
Born: London, England, December...
Ada Lovelace
Born: London, England, December 10,
1815 Died: London, England, November 27, 1852
Analyst, Metaphysician, and Founder of Scientific Computing
Ada Byron was the daughter of a brief marriage between the Romantic poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabelle Milbanke, who separated from Byron just a month after Ada was born. Four months later, Byron left England forever. Ada never met her father (who died in Greece in 1823) and was raised by her mother, Lady Byron. Her life was an apotheosis of struggle between emotion and reason, subjectivism and objectivism, poetics and mathematics, ill health and bursts of energy.
Lady Byron wished her daughter to be unlike her poetical father, and she saw to it that Ada received tutoring in mathematics and music, as disciplines to counter dangerous poetic tendencies. But Ada’s complex inheritance became apparent as early as 1828, when she produced the design for a flying machine. It was mathematics that gave her life its wings.
Lady Byron and Ada moved in an elite London society, one in which gentlemen not members of the clergy or occupied with politics or the affairs of a regiment were quite likely to spend their time and fortunes pursuing botany, geology, or astronomy. In the early nineteenth century there were no “professional” scientists (indeed, the word “scientist” was only coined by William Whewell in 1836)—but the participation of noblewomen in intellectual pursuits was not widely encouraged.
One of the gentlemanly scientists of the era was to become Ada’s lifelong friend. Charles Babbage, Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, was known as the inventor of the Difference Engine, an elaborate calculating machine that operated by the method of finite differences. Ada met Babbage in 1833, when she was just 17, and they began a voluminous correspondence on the topics of mathematics, logic, and ultimately all subjects.
In 1835, Ada married William King, ten years her senior, and when King inherited a noble title in 1838, they became the Earl and Countess of Lovelace. Ada had three children. The family and its fortunes were very much directed by Lady Byron, whose domineering was rarely opposed by King.
Babbage had made plans in 1834 for a new kind of calculating machine (although the Difference Engine was not finished), an Analytical Engine. His Parliamentary sponsors refused to support a second machine with the first unfinished, but Babbage found sympathy for his new project abroad. In 1842, an Italian mathematician, Louis Menebrea, published a memoir in French on the subject of the Analytical Engine. Babbage enlisted Ada as translator for the memoir, and during a nine-month period in 1842-43, she worked feverishly on the article and a set of Notes she appended to it. These are the source of her enduring fame.
Ada called herself “an Analyst (& Metaphysician),” and the combination was put to use in the Notes. She understood the plans for the device as well as Babbage but was better at articulating its promise. She rightly saw it as what we would call a general-purpose computer. It was suited for “developping [sic] and tabulating any function whatever… the engine [is] the material expression of any indefinite function of any degree of generality and complexity.” Her Notes anticipate future developments, including computer-generated music.
Ada died of cancer in 1852, at the age of 37, and was buried beside the father she never knew. Her contributions to science were resurrected only recently, but many new biographies* attest to the fascination of Babbage’s “Enchantress of Numbers.”
* Doris Langley Moore, 1977: Ada: Countess of Lovelace (London: John Murray); Joan Baum, 1986: The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron (Archon Books); Betty A. Toole, 1992: Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers (Mill Valley, CA: Strawberry Press).
