Collected works of William Whewell
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Collected works of William Whewell
Thoemmes Press, 2001
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Reprint of the works originally published in 1829-1876
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This sixteen-volume set brings together editions of William Whewell's (1794-1886) major writings. It contains two of most well-known works by this British philosopher and historian of science, the "History of the Inductive Sciences" and "The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences". These books established Whewell as one of the leading philosophers of science. The set contains writings on many subjects including scientific research, physics, mathematics, ethics, law, university education, natural theology, church architecture, political economy and the history and philosophy of science.
Table of Contents
- Volumes 1-3 History Introduction by Richard Yeo (c.20pp) History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Time (third ed. with additions, 1857) 3 vols. xxxii, 394pp/xii, 488pp/xiv, 565pp Volumes 4-7 Philosophy of Science Volumes 4-5 The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon their History, new edition, with corrections and additions, and appendix, containing philosophical essays previously published (1847) 2 vols. xxxii, [2], 4-708pp/xiv, 679pp Volume 6 Novum Organon Renovatum.... Being the second part of the Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. The third edition (1858) xxiii, 370pp Volume 7 On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical
- Including the Completion of the Third Edition of the Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1860) xvi, 531 (1)pp Volume 8 Mechanics and Architecture Architectural Notes on German Churches. With Notes Written During an Architectural Tour in Picardy and Normandy. To Which are Added Notes on the Churches of the Rhine, by M. F. de Lassaulx (1842) xvi, 333pp, 4 plates The Mechanical Euclid (3rd ed. corrected, 1838) xii, 187pp Volumes 9-10 Natural Theology and Astronomy Volume 9 Astronomy and General Physics, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1864), new ed., with new preface xxiv, 381pp Volume 10 Of the Plurality of Worlds. An Essay, Also, a Dialogue on the Same Subject (1855), 4th ed. xii, 411pp Volume 11 Moral Philosophy On the Foundations of Morals, 2nd ed. [1839] xx, 76pp Two Introductory Lectures to Two Courses of Lectures on Moral Philosophy, Delivered in 1839 and 1841 (1841) 52pp Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England (1862), new edition, with additional lectures xvi, 280, 130pp Volumes 12-13 Education Volume 12 On the Principles of English University Education, Including Additional Thoughts on the Study of Mathematics (2nd ed., 1838) viii, 189pp On the Material Aids of Education (1854), pp. 3-39 [37pp] Volume 13 Of a Liberal Education (1850) xx, 236, viii, 144pp The General Bearing of the Great Exhibition on the Progress of Art and Science (1851) c. 16pp 'On the Influence of the History of Science Upon Intellectual Education' (1855), in Edward L. Youmans (ed.) Modern Culture
- Its True Aims and Requirements (1867), pp. 163-89 [27pp] Volume 14 Political Economy and Miscellaneous Writings 'Mathematical Expositions of Some Doctrines of Political Economy', Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. 3 (1829), pp. 191-230 [40pp] 'Mathematical Expositions of Some of the Leading Doctrines in the Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy and Taxation', Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. 4 (1831), pp. 155-98 [44pp] 'Mathematical Expositions of Some Doctrines of Political Economy - Second Memoir', Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. 9 (1850), pp. 120-49 [30pp] Six Lectures on Political Economy (1862) xii, 102pp Newton and Flamsteed: Remarks on an Article in Number CIX of the Quarterly Review (1836), 19pp 'Second Memoir on the Fundamental Antithesis of Philosophy', Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. 8 (1848), pp. 614-20 [7pp] Of Induction, with Especial Reference to Mr J. Stuart Mill's System of Logic (1849) 87pp Volumes 15-16 Biography I. Todhunter William Whewell. An Account of his Writings with Selections from his Literary and Scientific Correspondence (1876) (2 vols.) xxxi, 416pp/439pp
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