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	William Whewell - LoveToKnow 1911
		WILLIAM WHEWELL (1794-1866), British philosopher and historian of science, was born on the 24th of May 1794 at Lancaster.
		In 1826 and 1828, Whewell was engaged with Airy in conducting experiments in Dolcoath mine, Cornwall, in order to determine the density of the earth.
		Whewell's wide, if superficial, acquaintance with various branches of science enabled him to write a comprehensive account of their development, which is still of the greatest value.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /William_Whewell (0 words)

	William Whewell (1794-1866) gentleman of science
		Whewell was a co-founder and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the Royal Society, president of the Geological Society, and for many years Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
		Whewell wrote that the essence of induction was "the colligation of facts by means of a concept".
		Whewell's position as one of the highest elites of Victorian science can be gathered, apart from everything else, from his authorship of one of the famous Bridgewater Treatises: On Astronomy and General Physics.
	www.victorianweb.org /science/whewell.html (0 words)

	William Whewell (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Whewell was born in 1794, the eldest child of a master-carpenter in Lancaster.
		Whewell claimed that a large part of the history of science is the “history of scientific ideas,” that is, the history of their explication and subsequent use as colligating concepts.
		Whewell is interesting to examine in relation to this issue because he claimed to be inferring his philosophy of science from his study of the history and practice of science.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/whewell (0 words)

	William Whewell
		Whewell explains that the fundamental ideas are "not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise" (1858a, I, p.
		Whewell claims that a large part of the history of science is the "history of scientific ideas," that is, the history of their explication and subsequent use as colligating concepts.
		Whewell is interesting to examine in relation to this issue because he claimed to be inferring his philosophy of science from his study of the history and practice of science.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/win2002/entries/whewell (6271 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > William Whewell (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William Whewell (May 24, 1794 - March 6, 1866) was a British philosopher and historian of science.
		In 1826 and 1828, Whewell was engaged with George Biddell Airy in conducting experiments in Dolcoath mine, Cornwall, in order to determine the density of the earth.
		Whewell's wide, if superficial, acquaintance with various branches of science enabled him to write a comprehensive account of their development, which is still valuable.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/wi/William_Whewell (737 words)

	Whewell-Mill Debate (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whewell distinguishes "colligations" from what are commonly thought of as inductions to make the point that it is only the former that, by virtue of the mental act of introducing conceptions, genuinely connects or unifies facts.
		Whewell claims that the colligation is an essential to the consilience of inductions, which is essential to the justification of scientific theories.
		Whewell does not deny that the regularities in nature exist before we perceive or conceive them; he does not reject the claim that the orbit of Mars was elliptical before anyone knew that to be true.
	philosophy.wisc.edu /forster/220/whewell.html (3037 words)

	William Whewell (1794-1866) gentleman of science
		Whewell was a co-founder and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the Royal Society, president of the Geological Society, and for many years Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
		Whewell wrote that the essence of induction was "the colligation of facts by means of a concept".
		Whewell's position as one of the highest elites of Victorian science can be gathered, apart from everything else, from his authorship of one of the famous Bridgewater Treatises: On Astronomy and General Physics.
	victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp /victorianweb/science/whewell.html (474 words)

	IV.4 WILLIAM WHEWELL
		Whewell nació en Lancaster, en una familia de clase media; su padre era un carpintero acomodado que estuvo en posibilidad de sostener la educación de su hijo, aunque gracias a su talento y competitividad, Whewell también contribuyó a ella ganando becas no despreciables desde muy joven.
		Finalmente, Whewell demostró tener gran puntería para la nomenclatura científica a él se deben los términos "ion", "electrodo", "ánodo" y "cátodo" (introducidos por Faraday por sugestión de Whewell), las designaciones de "uniformismo" y "catastrofismo" para las respectivas doctrinas geológicas, y la palabra "científico", que a partir de su tiempo reemplazó al "filósofo natural" aristotélico.
		Para nuestro propósito, Whewell es importante porque, a diferencia de otros empiristas ingleses de su época, en vez de pasar por alto las ideas y contribuciones de otros científicos y filósofos europeos (alemanes y franceses) a los problemas de su interés, los incorporó a su pensamiento filosófico.
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	Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whewell, William (b Lancaster, England, 24 May 1794; d Cambridge, England, 6 March 1866) Born the eldest son of a carpenter, William Whewell rose to become Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and a central figure in Victorian science.
		Whewell used the general features of this historical development, based largely on the “prelude,” “Inductive epoch,” and “sequel” in the history of physical astronomy, to form his philosophy of science.
		Whewell was deeply influenced by the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
	philosophy.wisc.edu /forster/Whewell.htm (1404 words)

	CalendarHome.com - William Whewell - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William Whewell (May 24, 1794 – March 6, 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science.
		In Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences Whewell was the first to use the term "consilience" to discuss the unification of knowledge between the different branches of learning.
		Whewell was one of the Cambridge dons whom Charles Darwin met during his education there, and after the Beagle voyage when Darwin was at the very start of The Origin of Species Darwin placed a citation from Whewell's Bridgewater Treatise showing his ideas to be founded on a natural theology of a creator establishing laws:
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	Whewell and Ruskin on Gothic
		Whewell, although not a practicing geologist, was of course a Bridgewater author and Geological Society president, a member of the ruling elite in a way that Ruskin was decidedly not, but both men were friends of J.D. Forbes and public advocates of his glacier theories.
		Whewell was forced in the preface to the second (1835) edition to modify his theory of the pointed arch resulting from vaulting requirements, thanks largely to Willis's demonstration in Remarks on the Architecture of the Middle Ages (1835) that the Romans had solved this problem without resorting to the pointed arch.
		Willis's demonstration merely forced Whewell to qualify his earlier claim: it was the vaulting problem, combined with the need to maintain architectural harmony, that was the central cause of the introduction of the pointed arch, and this in turn led to the emergence of vertical lines as the central idea of Gothic form (12-15).
	www-personal.umd.umich.edu /~jonsmith/gothic.html (6658 words)

	HES: QUERY -- Mill-Whewell debate
		"William Whewell and John Stuart Mill on the methodology of political economy." _Studies in History and Philosophy of Science_, 14: 127-168.
		"William Whewell on the Consilience of Inductions," and "Reply to Mary Hesse," _The Monist_, 55, 368-91, 525.
		Snyder, Laura J. "William Whewell's 'Philosophy of the Universe': Necessity and Theology in the Inductive Sciences," unpublished, Johns Hopkins University.
	www.eh.net /pipermail/hes/1997-July/002141.html (0 words)

	William Whewell
		Although a close friend of the English historicist Richard Jones, William Whewell nonetheless set himself the task of translating a lot of given economic theory into mathematics (1829, 1830, 1850) -- an endeavor that was not warmly welcomed by many contemporaries.
		Whewell is also widely regarded as the father of modern philosophy of science.
		Whewell was critical in introducing the "moral sciences" and "natural sciences" examinations at Cambridge in 1848.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/whewell.htm (632 words)

	IngentaConnect William Whewell's Idea of Historical Causation. Some Methodologic...
		Whewell maintained, as the core of his idea of scientific enterprise, a difference between mechanical and historical causation.
		Whewell thought that Lyell's geological theory was an historical science, which he called palaetiological science.
		Whewell and Herschel disagreed on a fundamental and totally new issuenamely, whether geology has the same scientific status as the successful sciences.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/rodopi/pozs/2004/00000085/00000001/art00017 (219 words)

	The C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Charles Darwin and Darwiniana: Cambridge
		William Paley, whose textbook of Natural Theology, required reading in the English universities, likened God's design in creation to that of a divine watchmaker, whose intent and presence could be deduced from the complexity of the machine he had created.
		William Whewell, a leading Cambridge mathematician and later Master of Trinity College, was a daunting polymath who introduced German moral philosophy into Cambridge and wrote two major books on scientific method.
		William Buckland, used newly- discovered fossil remains not only to reconstruct such extinct species as the Megatherium illustrated here, but also to support the Biblical account of a universal flood.
	www.sc.edu /library/spcoll/nathist/darwin/darwin2.html (774 words)

	William Whewell
		William Whewell (Year1794 May24, Year1866 March06) was an Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian and historian of science.
		In the Philosophy, Whewell attempts to follow FrancisBacon's plan for discovery of an effectual art of discovery.
		In Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences Whewell was the first to use the term "consilience(See also ConsilienceTheUnityOfKnowledge --jania)" to discuss the unification of knowledge between the different branches of learning.
	jania.pe.kr /wiki/jwiki/moin.cgi/WilliamWhewell (79 words)

	The Planet-Girded Suns, Chapter 5
		Because Dr. Whewell had written so much that was well known, his style was recognizable, and the fact that he was the author of the controversial book soon became an open secret.
		Whewell’s most vehement critic devoted forty pages of a well-known magazine to defending plurality of worlds, and still did not feel he had said enough; shortly afterwards he published a book of his own in rebuttal.
		William Whewell contended that it was unlikely that double stars had planets, or that nebulae were composed of stars as most astronomers believed; to him, this seemed to point toward the conclusion that no other solar systems existed.
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	William Whewell
		William Whewell graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge where he was appointed Professor of Minerology (1828), Professor of Moral Philosophy (1838) and Vice-Chancellor (1842).
		Whewell performed extensive researches on the tides, and was recognized as and authority on scientific nomenclature.
		Whewell sought to base his philosophy of science on the history of science.
	www.liv.ac.uk /~pcknox/teaching/phil/whew.htm (130 words)

	Palaetiology: William Whewell on the Historical Sciences
		The term “palaetiology” was coined in 1837 by English philosopher, historian, and educator William Whewell (1794–1866) to refer to those sciences which have as their object the reconstruction of the past based on the evidence of the present.
		Whewell’s two exemplary palaetiological sciences were geology and comparative philology, but he recognized that many different disciplines had palaetiological divisions.
		Whewell, who introduced the term Palaetiological, “I mean to point out those researches in which the object is, to ascend from the present state of things to a more ancient condition, from which the present is derived by intelligible causes.
	rjohara.net /darwin/palaetiology.html (1650 words)

	William Whewell - ExampleProblems.com
		William Whewell (May 24, 1794 – March 6, 1866) was an Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian and historian of science.
		In Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences Whewell was the first to use the term "consilience" to discuss the unification of knowledge between the different branches of learning.
		In 1833, Whewell coined the term "scientist" to describe the new group of professional people engaged in scientific work.
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		While the History traced how each branch of the sciences had evolved since antiquity, Whewell viewed the Philosophy as the 'Moral' of the previous work as it sought to extract a universal theory of knowledge through the history he had just traced.
		Aside from Science, Whewell was also interested in the history of architecture throughout his life.
		Whewell died in 1866 as a result of a fall from his horse.
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	Janus: Papers of William Whewell (1794-1866), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
		William Whewell was born in Lancaster on 24 May 1794, son of John Whewell, master carpenter.
		Whewell's talents were spotted by Joseph Rowley, Master of Lancaster Grammar School who offered to teach him for free.
		A reformer in his youth, Whewell was a reactionary as Master and sternly defended the autonomy of the Colleges and the type of liberal education he espoused in his 1845 book.
	janus.lib.cam.ac.uk /db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0016/WHEWELL (738 words)

	William Whewell - CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation science
		William Whewell was born in Lancaster, England, on March 24, 1794.
		William Whewell coined the word in 1833 at the request of the poet Coleridge.
		William Whewell believed in Christian Universalism, but not necessarily Christianity.
	creationwiki.org /William_Whewell (353 words)

	William Whewell Biography and Summary
		When his name appears at all in standard histories of science, it is usually to note this linguistic contribution or his impact on his alma mater and professional home, the University of Cambr...
		Whewell, William(1794–1866) William Whewell, the British philosopher and historian of science, was born in Lancaster.
		William Whewell(May 24, 1794 – March 6, 1866) was an En...
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	William Whewell information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William Whewell (May 24, 1794 – March 6, 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian and historian of science.
		At a time when men of science were becoming increasingly specialized, Whewell appears as a vestige of an earlier era when men of science dabbled in a bit of everything.
		In Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences Whewell was the first to use the term "consilience" to discuss the unification of knowledge between the different branches of learning.
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