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Whewell, William
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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Professor of the "science of things in general," born at Lancaster, son of a joiner; studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became successively fellow, tutor, professor, and master; was a man of varied attainments, of great intellectual and even physical power, and it was of him Sydney Smith said, "Science was his forte and omniscience his foible "; wrote "Astronomy and General Physics in reference to Natural Theology," the "Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences," the "History of Moral Philosophy," an essay on the "Plurality of Worlds," &c. (1794-1866).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Whewell, William'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/w/whewell-william.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Whewell, William'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/w/whewell-william.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
