Author: William WhewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Collected Works of William Whewell: An account of his writings with selections from his literary and scientific correspondence
Author: William WhewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Literary and general lectures and essays
Author: Charles KingsleyCollected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essays
Author: Charles KingsleyWilliam 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.
Collected Works of Charles Kingsley
Author: Charles KingsleyCollected Works of William Whewell
Author: William WhewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Author: Charles Kingsley
Author: Charles Kingsley
Author: Charles Kingsley
Author: Charles Kingsley