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William Whewell
Standard Name: Whewell, William
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Instructor | Augusta Ada Byron | Lady Byron employed a number of governesses to educate the young AAB
at their various country homes. From the age of five Ada received full-time instruction in arithmetic, grammar, spelling, reading, music, geography, drawing, and... |
Textual Features | Georgiana Chatterton | GC
worked on Plato with advice from scholar William Whewell
(Master of Trinity College, Cambridge), whom she had known for at least five years. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | The Destiny of Humanity discusses works by Aristotle
, Plato
, Kant
, William Whewell
, and Frederick Faber
. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 146-7 |
Friends, Associates | Emily Shirreff | ES
's circle of friends included Sir William Grove
(inventor of the Grove battery), scientist Mary Somerville
, lawyer and Royal Society president Lord Wrottesley
, astronomer Sir George Biddell Airy
, Sir John Herschel |
Literary responses | Mary Somerville | Mathematician William Whewell
's anonymous assessment of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by MS
in the Quarterly Review took up the question of gender difference (and proposed the adoption of a new word, scientist). Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 138 Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow. 210n93 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | In London the Somervilles enjoyed participating in a rich scientific community: Mary's time there was much happier than during her first marriage. She attended many lectures at the Royal Institution
, and took lessons in... |
Textual Production | Mary Somerville | As was normal practice for scientific texts at the time, MS
had canvassed a number of her learned friends for aid in preparing and proofreading her manuscript. Lord Brougham
, Michael Faraday
, James Forbes |
Timeline
1833: William Whewell coined the term scientist...
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1833
William Whewell
coined the term scientist at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
.
1839: At Cambridge, the Cambridge Network—which...
Building item
1839
At Cambridge, the Cambridge Network—which included John Herschel
, William Babbage
, George Peacock
, George Airy
, Adam Sedgwick
, and William Whewell
—lobbied to establish the formal study of science.
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