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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 mechanics, astronomy, and chemistry of 'modern times'. Volume 3 first covers the mechanico-chemical sciences, emphasizing the convergence of mechanical and chemical theories in discoveries pertaining to electricity, magnetism and thermodynamics. A section on chemistry surveys Becher and Stahl's phlogiston theory, Lavoisier's theory of oxygen, and Faraday's laws of electromagnetic induction. The volume also covers mineralogy, botany, zoology, and anatomy.
Llegir més - Autor/a William Whewell
- ISBN13 9781108019262
- ISBN10 1108019269
- Pàgines 642
- Any Edició 2010
- Fecha de publicación 09/09/2010
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times (Alemany, Francès)
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- William Whewell
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- Cambridge University Press (2010)
- 9781108019262



