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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      April 2012
      November 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139105415
      9781108038539
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139105415
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      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 454 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Cambridge
      Subjects:
      History, History of Science: General Interest, General, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Cambridge
    Subjects:
    History, History of Science: General Interest, General, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    William 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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