Tag: history of science
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Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace wrote the first published computer program in 1843, a step-by-step procedure for computing Bernoulli numbers on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine — a machine that was never built in her lifetime.
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William Sheldon
William Sheldon coined the term “somatotype” and named its three components — endomorph, mesomorph, ectomorph. He also produced personality theories and a photographic methodology that did not survive scrutiny.
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Adolphe Quetelet
Adolphe Quetelet founded modern anthropometry in 19th-century Brussels. He also designed the formula now misused as BMI. A short profile of his work and its limits.