A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794 1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, before becoming Master of the college in 1841. His mathematical textbooks, such as A Treatise on Dynamics (1823), were instrumental in bringing French analytical methods into British science. This three-volume history, first published in 1837, is one of Whewell's most famous works. Taking the 'acute, but fruitless, essays of Greek philosophy' as a starting point, it provides a history of the physical sciences that culminates with the...
A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794 1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridg...
John Henry Newman (1801 1890) was a theologian and vicar at the university church in Oxford who became a leading thinker in the Oxford Movement, which sought to return Anglicanism to its Catholic roots. Newman converted to Catholicism in 1845 and became a cardinal in 1879. He published widely during his lifetime; his work included novels, poetry and the famous hymn 'Lead, Kindly Light', but he is most esteemed for his sermons and works of religious thought. This volume, first published in 1870, is an ambitious examination of the logical processes that underpin religious faith. Newman...
John Henry Newman (1801 1890) was a theologian and vicar at the university church in Oxford who became a leading thinker in the Oxford Movement, which...
A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794 1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, before becoming Master of the college in 1841. His mathematical textbooks, such as A Treatise on Dynamics (1823), were instrumental in bringing French analytical methods into British science. This three-volume history, first published in 1837, is one of Whewell's most famous works. Taking the 'acute, but fruitless, essays of Greek philosophy' as a starting point, it provides a history of the physical sciences that culminates with the...
A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794 1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridg...
A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794 1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, before becoming Master of the college in 1841. His mathematical textbooks, such as A Treatise on Dynamics (1823), were instrumental in bringing French analytical methods into British science. This three-volume history, first published in 1837, is one of Whewell's most famous works. Taking the 'acute, but fruitless, essays of Greek philosophy' as a starting point, it provides a history of the physical sciences that culminates with the...
A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794 1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridg...
