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September 5 - November 23, 2020
Many of her ideas about flying in 1828 predate Henson’s design for an aerial steam carriage in 1842.
“Surely to sow a single seed of truth in the mind of another is the noblest of deeds. We may never know its’ results here, but how inestimable they may be! This is my idea of the real use & object of all graces & all accomplishments in woman.”
She started a process for writing a winning strategy for a game in mathematical terms that predates Boole’s first published work in 1847, a pamphlet entitled The Mathematical Analysis of Logic,
translation of L. F. Menabrea’s description of Babbage’s Analytical Engine, which was published in French in a Swiss journal in October 1842.
translating a beautiful Italian scientific paper.”
perform a repeating cycle or process, taking numbers from the store.
