Name: History of the Inductive Sciences 3 Volume Set: History of the Inductive Sciences: Volume 3 Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy)
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Author: William Whewell
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History of the Inductive Sciences 3 Volume Set: History of the Inductive Sciences: Volume 3 Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

William Whewell

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

642

Format

Paperback

ISBN

1108019269

ISBN13

9781108019262

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Synopsis "History of the Inductive Sciences 3 Volume Set: History of the Inductive Sciences: Volume 3 Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy) "

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.

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