We’re excited to share with you today details of our next release:
A new typesetting, in a unique construction, of Ada Lovelace’s famous notes on, and translation of, L. F. Menabrea’s 1843 Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, Esq.
It will be available in September. More details about this project can be found here.
The book is a diptych with the memoir on the left, and Lovelace’s extensive Notes A – G on the right, held in place by bronze Chicago screws. It also includes a facsimile of the original fold-out Bernoulli diagram in Note G.
We got to spend some time with one of the original copies at MIT Libraries. This helped us make the fold-out accurate, and answer some other pressing questions.
We also built our own in-house typesetting and publishing software to make this book, called Pigment. We’ll share more on this effort soon.
Our friend Andy Milburn had the idea for this book’s unique construction. Coincidentally, Lovelace wanted something similar herself:
May printers inconvenience you no more, Ada.