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Record 11280

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
[Whewell read Babbage, and was concerned that it had been his own Bridgewater which had stimulated Babbage to write one]
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1837 and 31 Dec 1837
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:William Whewell
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1794
Socio-economic group: Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation: Anglican clergyman. Master of TrinityCollege, Cambridge
Religion: Anglican
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Charles Babbage
Title: Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
Genre: Other religious, Science
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11280  
Source - Print  
  Author: J. Todhunter
  Editor: n/a
  Title: William Whewell, D.D. (2 vols).
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1876
  Vol: 1
  Page: 97
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: J. Todhunter, William Whewell, D.D. (2 vols). (London, 1876), 1, p. 97, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11280, accessed: 28 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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