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.