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William Whewell : History of the Inductive Sciences

'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began the second Book of the Iliad in Greek this morning'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes     Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

  

William Whewell : Essay Towards a First Approximation to a Map of Cotidal Lines

'Give Mr Whewell my best thanks for sending me his tide paper: all on board are much interested by it.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin      Print: Unknown

  

William Whewell : Fraser's Magazine [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage']

'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think it would be a disgrace to be praised by the man who wrote that review of Mr Thackeray. Dr Whewell wrote that review in Fraser I believe; and I have received a very complimentary note from him as well'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Whewell : Plurality of Worlds

'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and they read Dante's Inferno together. Whewell's Plurality of Worlds he also carefully studied. "It is to me anything," he writes, "but a satisfactory book. It is inconceivable that the whole Universe was created merely for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate sun."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

 

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