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

by Richard Yeo

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521541166
• ISBN13: 9780521541169
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"