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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Brief Chronology of Whewell’s Life
- Introduction. William Whewell, Victorian Polymath
- Chapter 1. Whewell’s Early Life and Education
- Chapter 2. Whewell and Cambridge Mathematics
- Chapter 3. Whewell and Mechanics
- Chapter 4. Whewell and Architecture
- Chapter 5. Whewell and Political Economy
- Chapter 6. Whewell and Language
- Chapter 7. Whewell and Tidology
- Chapter 8. Whewell on Astronomy and Natural Theology
- Chapter 9. Whewell, Bacon, and the History of Science
- Chapter 10. Whewell’s Kant and Beyond: A Reassessment of Whewell’s Philosophy of Science
- Chapter 11. Whewell, Gender, and Science
- Chapter 12. Whewell on the Palaetiological Sciences
- Chapter 13. Whewell on the Classificatory Sciences
- Chapter 14. Whewell and Moral Philosophy
- Chapter 15. Whewell and Liberal Education: An Essay
- Chapter 16. “In the Chapel of Trinity College”: Whewell as Priest
- Chapter 17. Whewell on Church and State, Science and Empire
- Chapter 18. The Whewell Papers at Trinity College Library
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
- About the Author
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