William Whewell An Account Of His Writings With Selections From His Literary And Scientific Correspondence By I Todhunter
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Author |
: Lukas M. Verburgt |
Publisher |
: University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages |
: 563 |
Release |
: 2024-10-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822991526 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822991527 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Whewell by : Lukas M. Verburgt
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.
Author |
: William Whewell |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 904 |
Release |
: 1876 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0026114348 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Whewell. ... An account of his Writings, with selections from his literary and scientific Correspondence. By I. Todhunter by : William Whewell
Author |
: Isaac Todhunter |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 456 |
Release |
: 1876 |
ISBN-10 |
: DMM:057000005728 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Whewell, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge by : Isaac Todhunter
Author |
: W S Jevons |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 1977-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781349030910 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1349030910 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons by : W S Jevons
Author |
: Isaac Todhunter |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 458 |
Release |
: 1876 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105030281989 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Whewell, D.D. ... by : Isaac Todhunter
Author |
: Jutta Schickore |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2006-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781402042515 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1402042515 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revisiting Discovery and Justification by : Jutta Schickore
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.
Author |
: C.L. Ten |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 494 |
Release |
: 2016-07-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136750120 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136750126 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nineteenth Century by : C.L. Ten
This volume covers many of the most important philosophers and movements of the nineteenth century, including utilitarianism, positivism and pragmatism.
Author |
: Howard Carlton |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2022-08-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783031052804 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3031052803 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth Century by : Howard Carlton
This book argues that while the historiography of the development of scientific ideas has for some time acknowledged the important influences of socio-cultural and material contexts, the significant impact of traumatic events, life threatening illnesses and other psychotropic stimuli on the development of scientific thought may not have been fully recognised. Howard Carlton examines the available primary sources which provide insight into the lives of a number of nineteenth-century astronomers, theologians and physicists to study the complex interactions within their ‘biocultural’ brain-body systems which drove parallel changes of perspective in theology, metaphysics, and cosmology. In doing so, he also explores three topics of great scientific interest during this period: the question of the possible existence of life on other planets; the deployment of the nebular hypothesis as a theory of cosmogony; and the religiously charged debates about the ages of the earth and sun. From this body of evidence we gain a greater understanding of the underlying phenomena which actuated intellectual developments in the past and which are still relevant to today’s knowledge-making processes.
Author |
: Richard Yeo |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 2024-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781040246498 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1040246494 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science in the Public Sphere by : Richard Yeo
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.
Author |
: Arne Hessenbruch |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 986 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 188496429X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781884964299 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis Reader's Guide to the History of Science by : Arne Hessenbruch
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.