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Robert Leslie Ellis, William Whewell and Kant: the Role of Rev H F C Logan (2016)

Verburgt, Lukas M. (Author)

British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Volume: 31
Issue: 1
Pages: 47-51

DOI: 10.1080/17498430.2015.1035582

URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2015.1035582

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19th century 18th century Great Britain Kant, Immanuel Ellis, Robert Leslie Logan, Henry Francis Charles (1800-1884) Whewell, William

Reverend H F C Logan is put forward as the formerly unidentified figure to which Robert Leslie Ellis referred in a journal entry of 1840 in which he wrote that it was due to his influence that William Whewell came to uphold particular Kantian views on time and space. The historical evidence of Ellis’s early familiarity with, and later commitment to Kant is noteworthy for at least two reasons. Firstly, it puts into doubt the accepted view of the second generation of reformers of British algebra as non-philosophical, practice-oriented mathematicians. Secondly, in so far as Logan was the correspondent of William Rowan Hamilton, it re-emphasizes that the role of Kantianism in the transition from ‘symbolical’ to ‘abstract’ algebra in nineteenth-century British algebra requires closer scrutiny.

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