Book ID: CBB000047590

Defining science: William Whewell, natural knowledge, and public debate in early Victorian Britain (1993)

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Yeo, Richard R. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 1993
Physical Details: xiii + 280 pp.; notes; bibl.; index

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Review Kent, C. (1996) Review of "Defining science: William Whewell, natural knowledge, and public debate in early Victorian Britain". Victorian Periodicals Review (pp. 41-43). unapi

Review Ashworth, W.J. (1996) Review of "Defining science: William Whewell, natural knowledge, and public debate in early Victorian Britain". Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 260-62). unapi

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Review Brooke, J.H. (1996) Review of "Defining science: William Whewell, natural knowledge, and public debate in early Victorian Britain". English Historical Review (pp. 752-53). unapi

Review Heyck, T.W. (1996) Review of "Defining science: William Whewell, natural knowledge, and public debate in early Victorian Britain". History of European Ideas (pp. 177-78). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Snyder, Laura J.
Yeo, Richard R.
Wettersten, John R.
Valone, David A.
Ruse, Michael
Richards, Joan L.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Perspectives on Science
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Rivista di Filosofia
Rivista Critica di Storia della Filosofia
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
Rowman & Littlefield
Johns Hopkins University
University of Chicago
Concepts
Science
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Positivism
People
Whewell, William
Mill, John Stuart
Herschel, John Frederick William
Jones, Richard
Thirwall, Connop
Somerville, Mary Fairfax
Time Periods
19th century
Places
British Isles
Institutions
Cambridge University
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