Author: Isaac TodhunterPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
William Whewell, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
Author: Isaac TodhunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
William Whewell, D. D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
Author: William WhewellWilliam 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.
William Whewell's Theory of Scientific Method
Author: Robert E. ButtsPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822975262
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
William Whewell is considered one of the most important nineteenth-century British philosophers of science and a contributor to modern philosophical thought, particularly regarding the problem of induction and the logic of discovery. In this volume, Robert E. Butts offers selections from Whewell's most important writings, and analysis of counter-claims to his philosophy.
Revisiting Discovery and Justification
Author: Jutta SchickorePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402042515
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has left a turbulent wake in the philosophy of science. This book recognizes the need to re-open the debate about the nature, development, and significance of the context distinction, about its merits and flaws. The discussion clears the ground for the productive and fruitful integration of these new developments into philosophy of science.
“The” Archaeological Journal
Author: The Church Quarterly Review
Author: Arthur Cayley HeadlamPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Church Quarterly Review for April - July 1882
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385389984
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
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