William Whewell, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
William Whewell, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
William Whewell
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GBPWilliam Whewell (1794–1866) was born the son of a Lancaster carpenter, but his precocious intellect soon delivered him into a different social sphere. Educated at a local grammar school, he won a scholarship to Cambridge, and began his career at Trinity College in 1812; he went on to be elected a fellow of Trinity in 1817 and Master in 1841. An acquaintance of William Wordsworth and a friend of Adam Sedgwick, his professional interests reflected a typically nineteenth-century fusion of religion and science, ethics and empiricism. Published in 1876, and written by the mathematician and fellow of St John's College, Isaac Todhunter (1820–84), this biography combines a narrative account of Whewell's life and achievements with extracts taken from his personal correspondence. Volume 1 covers his sermons and early poetry, as well as his work on tides, moral philosophy and mechanics, and his celebrated study of the inductive sciences.
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November 2011Paperback
9781108038539
454 pages
216 × 140 × 26 mm
0.57kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Alphabetical list of the persons to whom the letters in the second volume are addressed
- List of scientific societies with which Dr Whewell was connected
- Names mentioned in the letters
- 1. 1794–1819
- 2. Publications relating to mechanics
- 3. 1820–30
- 4. 1831–3
- 5. Bridgewater Treatise
- 6. Researches on the tides
- 7. 1834–7
- 8. History of the inductive sciences
- 9. 1838–40
- 10. The philosophy of the inductive sciences
- 11. 1841–53
- 12. Plurality of worlds
- 13. 1854–66
- 14. Moral philosophy
- 15. English hexameters
- 16. Scientific memoirs
- 17. Sermons
- 18. Notes on books
- 19. Poetical pieces
- 20. Miscellaneous prose pieces
- 21. Conclusion.
