TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Whewell,William
TI  - History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times-Vol.3 [ electronic resource ] 
SN  - 9780511734359
U1  - 509 
PY  - 2011///
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Philosophy
KW  -  Philosophy of Science
KW  -  History of Philosophy
KW  -  Philosophy: General Interest
KW  - Electronic books
N2  - A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794–1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, before becoming Master of the college in 1841. His mathematical textbooks, such as A Treatise on Dynamics (1823), were instrumental in bringing French analytical methods into British science. This three-volume history, first published in 1837, is one of Whewell's most famous works. Taking the 'acute, but fruitless, essays of Greek philosophy' as a starting point, it provides a history of the physical sciences that culminates with the mechanics, astronomy, and chemistry of 'modern times'. Volume 3 first covers the mechanico-chemical sciences, emphasizing the convergence of mechanical and chemical theories in discoveries pertaining to electricity, magnetism and thermodynamics. A section on chemistry surveys Becher and Stahl's phlogiston theory, Lavoisier's theory of oxygen, and Faraday's laws of electromagnetic induction. The volume also covers mineralogy, botany, zoology, and anatomy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511734359
ER  -