The Victorian period in Britain was an age of reform. It is therefore not surprising that two of the era s most eminent intellects described themselves as reformers. Both William Whewell and John Stuart Mill believed that by reforming philosophy including the philosophy of science they could effect social and political change. But their divergent visions of this societal transformation led to a sustained and spirited controversy that covered morality, politics, science, and economics. Situating their debate within the larger context of Victorian society and its concerns, "Reforming...
The Victorian period in Britain was an age of reform. It is therefore not surprising that two of the era s most eminent intellects described themselve...
The Victorian period in Britain was an age of reform. It is therefore not surprising that two of the era s most eminent intellects described themselves as reformers. Both William Whewell and John Stuart Mill believed that by reforming philosophy including the philosophy of science they could effect social and political change. But their divergent visions of this societal transformation led to a sustained and spirited controversy that covered morality, politics, science, and economics. Situating their debate within the larger context of Victorian society and its concerns, "Reforming...
The Victorian period in Britain was an age of reform. It is therefore not surprising that two of the era s most eminent intellects described themselve...
On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek--a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher--gazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered a never-before imagined world of microscopic life. At the same time, in a nearby attic, the painter Johannes Vermeer was using another optical device, a camera obscura, to experiment with light and create the most luminous pictures ever beheld.
"See for yourself " was the clarion call of the 1600s. Scientists peered at nature through microscopes and telescopes,...
On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek--a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural phil...
