Whewell

Upon the request of the poet Coleridge in 1833 Whewell invented the English word

William Whewell Snyder, Laura J. 2006

Cambridge, and in both 1911 and 1913 was named the Whewell scholar in international law.

Philip Noel-Baker - Biography 1959

With work such as Whewell's being typical of Duhem's intellectual context, when Duhem wrote L'évolution de la mécanique, in 1903, he dismissed the Middle Ages as scientifically sterile.

Pierre Duhem Ariew, Roger 2007

He laughed to scorn the idea that a mathematician, such as Whewell, could judge, as I maintained he could, of Goethe's views on light.

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin 1845

In mid-nineteenth-century England, the man considered the greatest intellect of the time—geologist and moral philosopher William Whewell, master of Trinity College, Cambridge University—wrote first anonymously and then publicly that those who argued many planets were inhabited were wrong on the science, and also that central aspects of Christianity and the possible presence of extraterrestrial life were incompatible.

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

Laura J. Snyder's "The Philosophical Breakfast Club" describes how, over the next few decades, Babbage, Herschel, Whewell and Jones set out to modernize the way science in England was taught, organized and conducted—to elevate science from an avocation into a specialized profession.

An Engine of Perpetual Revolution By Alan Hirshfeld 2011

Tim Whewell: It would be parochial to give a free pass to Michal Kaminski et al just because we resent the issue becoming a political football

Turmoil for Tories in Europe as alliance leader 'hounded out' 2011

It is for instance discussed carefully by William Whewell in his Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, published in 1840.

Michael Ruse: Is New Atheism A Religion? Michael Ruse 2011

Recently Michael Ruse has rushed to Mike's aid, citing William Whewell in a letter to the Guardian.

2010 May - Telic Thoughts 2010

Tim Whewell of Newsnight, sitting on a wall somewhere in Whitehall chatting to camera, knew just as much or as little as correspondents camped out in Cairo hotels.

Twitter is no substitute for proper war reporting – just look at Libya 2011