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Author:   Menachem Fisch (Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, University of Tel Aviv) ,  Simon Schaffer (University Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, University Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9780198249009

ISBN 10:   0198249004
Pages:   418
Publication Date:   21 February 1991
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Harvey W. Becher: William Whewell's Odyssey: From Mathematics to Moral Philosophy; Menachem Fisch: A Philosopher's Coming of Age: A Study in Erotetic Intellectual History; Geoffrey N. Cantor: Between Rationalism and Romanticism: Whewell's Historiography of the Inductive Sciences; Michael Ruse: William Whewell, Omniscientist; Perry Williams: Passing on the Torch: Whewell's Philosophy and the Principles of English University Education; John Brooke: Indications of a Creator: Whewell as Apologist and Priest; Richard R. Yeo: William Whewell's Philosophy of Knowledge and its Reception; Simon Shaffer: The History and Geography of the Intellectual World: Whewell's Politics of Language; David B. Wilson: Convergence: Metaphysical Pleasure versus Physical Constraint; M. J. S. Hodge: The History of the Earth, Life, and Man: Whewell and Palaetiological Science; Menachem Fisch: Antithetical Knowledge; Gerd Buchdahl: Deductivist versus Inductivist Approaches in the Philosophy of Science as Illustrated by some Controversies between Whewell and Mill; John Wettersten: Whewell's Problematic Heritage

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This well-researched examination by historians and philosophers of science of William Whewell's legendary, if rarely examined, polymathy, provides an illuminating account of science and the academy in the early nineteenth century. --Albion<br> This book succeeds like no other in synthesizing the full scope of [Whewell's] diverse historical influence....A valuable contribution to the understanding of 19th-century intellectual life and should be acquired by libraries supporting a curriculum in the history and philosophy of science. --Choice<br>

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