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Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain

Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain

Yeo, Richard R.

Hardcover

Series: Ideas in Context, Book 27

Sports GeneralGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0521431824
ISBN13: 9780521431828
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 27 1993
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.29 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
Defining Science deals with the major role of the historian and philosopher of science, William Whewell, in early Victorian debates about the nature of science and its moral and cultural value. Richard Yeo also examines the different forms or genres in which science was discussed in the public sphere--most crucially in the Victorian review journals, but also in biographical, historical and educational works. Analysis of the whole corpus of Whewell's work suggests that it be seen not only as an attempt to define science, but to clarify his own vocation as its leading critic.

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