The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer (Pantheon Graphic Novels)
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (628 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307908275 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Deborah J. Harper said Not ready for Kindle. Five stars BUT do not get the Kindle edition. Although you can enlarge each comic panel, the foot notes on each page (which are fun and interesting and worth the read) get only a tiny bit bigger. Very frustrating. Go for the hard cover. Amusing story, partly true, partly fiction and well written and drawn.. "Delightful" according to judielaine. More cogs and footnotes than I imagined possible. Truth and fiction dancing together to the progressive chunk-a-chunk of steam powered machinery and the chattering rise and fall of Victorian gossip.. Glenn Harcourt said ADA IN WONDERLAND. Do not even think, just BUY THIS BOOK! This is one of the most enjoyable graphic novels, one of the best "popular" books on the history of science, and one of the great Victorian narratives EVER. PERIOD. The author navigates a complex and contentious set of topics with aplomb and unfailingly upbeat good humor -- except when describing lingering and painful deaths by cancer and other unpleasant eventualities. Babbage and Lovelace, two of history's real one-of-a-kinds (one the sole legitimate offspring of the notorious and unfettered poetic genius, Lord Byron; the other the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge -- think Newton and Hawk
Complete with extensive footnotes that rival those penned by Lovelace herself, historical curiosities, and never-before-seen diagrams of Babbage’s mechanical, steam-powered computer, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is wonderfully whimsical, utterly unusual, and, above all, entirely irresistible.(With black-and-white illustrations throughout.) . Her footnotes contained the first appearance of the general computing theory, a hundred years before an actual computer was built. Meet Victorian
She started drawing comics by accident and is still trying to figure out how to stop. . Originally from the Canadian prairie, she now lives in London with her husband and far too many books. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is her first book. SYDNEY PADUA is an animator and visual effects artist, usually employed in making giant monsters appear to be attacking people for the movies
James Gleick, author of The Information“Don’t be fooled by the word ‘comic.’ Sydney Padua tells a story that is tender, passionate, and true.”Charles Petzold, author of Code and The Annotated Turing"So there. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is learned, clever, funny, and above all very silly in the best sense of the word."Publishers Weekly (starred review)“The immensity of Padua’s research and the wit and allusions of her prose are striking, saying as much about what drove her to explore the possibilities of her protagonists’ relationship as about the protagonists themselves. It’s a book that makes you a lot smarter as it makes you laugh.” The Takeaway“Novelist Sydney Padua has found quite a pair: the girl with the unstoppable brain; the male inventor 24 years her