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William Whewell

1794–1866

Mathematician, historian, and philosopher of science. Knightbridge Professor of moral philosophy, Cambridge University, 1838–55. Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1841–66. FRS 1820.

Sources

DSB

ODNB

Bibliography

DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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