Author: Stair DouglasPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338545445X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Life and Selections from the Correspondence of William Whewell, D.D. Late Master of Trinity College Cambridge
Author: Stair DouglasPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338545445X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Life and Selections from the Correspondence of William Whewell, D.D., Late Master of Trinity College Cambridge
Author: Janet Mary (Mrs. Stair) DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambridge. University. Trinity College
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
The Life and Selections from the Correspondence of William Whewell, D.D. Late Master of Trinity College Cambridge
Author: Stair DouglasPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385454468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
William Whewell
Author: Lukas M. VerburgtPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822991527
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
William Whewell, the famous master of Trinity College in Cambridge, was a central figure in nineteenth-century British scientific culture and one of the last great polymaths. His influential work ranged from history and philosophy of science, education, architecture, mineralogy, and political economy to mathematics, engineering, natural theology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy. Among his many gifts to science was his role as cofounder and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and his wordsmithing; he coined the terms scientist, physicist, linguistics, and electrode. While he was himself an opponent of evolution through natural selection, Whewell’s most famous works, including his Bridgewater Treatise (1833) and Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840), played a formative role in Charles Darwin’s creation of the theory of evolution. William Whewell: Victorian Polymath reexamines the whole of Whewell’s oeuvre, as well as the wide range and internal unity of his many polymathic endeavors, placing him within the early Victorian intellectual landscape and highlighting his exchanges with other important figures of the period, such as John Herschel, Charles Lyell, and Robert Peel. Bringing together a group of eminent and emergent scholars, the volume explores all major aspects of Whewell’s reform project and its legacy, both in the sciences and the humanities, in the Victorian era and beyond.
Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere
Author: John Willis ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Life of George Combe
Author: Charles GibbonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Life's Work in Ireland of a Landlord who Tried to Do His Duty
Author: William Bence JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Science in the Public Sphere
Author: Richard YeoPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040246494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The common focus of the essays in this book is the debate on the nature of science - often referred to by contemporaries as ’natural knowledge’ - in Britain during the first half of the 19th century. This was the period before major state support for science allowed its professionalization; indeed, it was a time in which the word ’scientist’ (although coined in 1833 by William Whewell) was not yet widely used. In this context, the questions about the nature of science were part of a public debate that included the following topics: scientific method and intellectual authority, the moral demeanour of the man of science, the hierarchy of specialised scientific disciplines, and the relation with natural theology. These topics were discussed both within scientific circles - in correspondence and meeting of societies - as well as in the wider public sphere constituted by quarterly journals and encyclopaedias. A study of these debates allow us to see how British science of this period began to cast loose some of its earlier theological supports, but still relied on a moral framework to affirm its distinctive method, ethos and cultural value.
Victorian Sensation
Author: James A. SecordPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226744116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
This is where our own public controversies about evolution began.".
Life of Victor Emmanuel II, First King of Italy
Author: Georgina Sarah GodkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description