He responded to William Whewell's statement that no scientific explanation of the universe was possible in his "Ninth Bridgewater Treatise," which attacked the eight previous treatises funded by the Earl of Bridgewater.
This man wrote a ballet in which 60 white nymphs perform the Rainbow Dance, so named because different colored lights are focused on them - that ballet Alethes and Iris was never produced because the theater manager was convinced it would cause a fire. He invented the first cow catcher and campaigned for passage of an act against "street nuisances" like outdoor musicians, who he claimed wasted a quarter of his life. He responded to William Whewell's statement that no scientific explanation of the universe was possible in his "Ninth Bridgewater Treatise," which attacked the eight previous treatises funded by the Earl of Bridgewater. He also wrote about the influence of aristocrats on science in his Reflections on the Decline of Science in England . This author of the memoir Passages From the Life of a Philosopher improved on Jacquard's invention of punched cards by proposing a device which incorporated an input, storage system, processor, control unit, and output device. FTP, name this inventor of the Analytic Engine and the Difference Engine.
This man wrote a ballet in which 60 white nymphs perform the Rainbow Dance, so named because different colored lights are focused on them - that ballet Alethes and Iris was never produced because the theater manager was convinced it would cause a fire.
Charles {Babbage}