William Whewell FRS FGS FRSE (/ˈhjuːəl/ HEW-əl; 24 May 1794 – 6 March 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian...

Whewell, William (1859) History of the Inductive Sciences. D. Appleton. Vol. 1. p. 394 Gilbert, William De Magnete, Book 6, Ch. 6,7 Gilbert, William De...

This term was introduced (after a suggestion by the English polymath William Whewell) by English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday in 1834 for the then-unknown...

was coined by the theologian, philosopher, and historian of science William Whewell in 1833. The roles of "scientists", and their predecessors before the...

human knowledge to be perfected, leading to human progress. Historian William Whewell wrote "Mr. Comte's arrangement of the progress of science as successively...

operation today, operating at similar intensities. The philosopher William Whewell dubbed this gradualistic view "uniformitarianism" and contrasted it...

modern geologists no longer hold to a strict gradualism. Coined by William Whewell, it was originally proposed in contrast to catastrophism by British...

of which I am not aware". Tschaepe quotes the description given by William Whewell, who says that this process "goes on so rapidly that we cannot trace...

what they can tell us about the Earth's organic and inorganic past". William Whewell (1794–1866) classified paleontology as one of the historical sciences...

was named after the 19th-century English philosopher and naturalist, William Whewell. It is located to the east of the disintegrated crater Tempel and north-northwest...

Popper would also describe himself as an agnostic. According to philosopher William L. Rowe, in this strict sense, agnosticism is the view that human reason...

1868 by the will of the 19th-century scientist and moral philosopher, William Whewell, with a view to devising "such measures as may tend to diminish the...

was originally coined as the phrase "consilience of inductions" by William Whewell (consilience refers to a "jumping together" of knowledge). The word...

science as a profession; the term scientist was coined in 1833 by William Whewell, which soon replaced the older term of natural philosopher. Among the...

paramagnetic way) to an applied magnetic field. On a suggestion by William Whewell, Faraday first referred to the phenomenon as diamagnetic (the prefix...

the 1830s and 1850s, when Baconianism was popular, naturalists like William Whewell, John Herschel, John Stuart Mill engaged in debates over "induction"...

thereby creating the field of optical mineralogy. For this work, William Whewell dubbed him the "father of modern experimental optics" and "the Johannes...

pp. 916–917. ISBN 9053565035. William G. Dever, Who Were the Early Israelites?, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans 2003. William G. Dever, Did God Have a Wife...

came into use. William Barrett identified Blaise Pascal and Søren Kierkegaard as two specific examples. Jean Wahl also identified William Shakespeare's...

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in...

parsimony or the law of parsimony (Latin: lex parsimoniae). Attributed to William of Ockham, a 14th-century English philosopher and theologian, it is frequently...

science as a profession; the term scientist was coined in 1833 by William Whewell, which soon replaced the older term of (natural) philosopher. Among...

Dictionary. See: Letter from William Whewell to Charles Lyell dated 31 January 1831 in: Todhunter, Isaac, ed. (1876). William Whewell, D. D., Master of Trinity...

word was coined in 1834 from the Greek ἄνοδος (anodos), 'ascent', by William Whewell, who had been consulted by Michael Faraday over some new names needed...

applied for the vacancy in 1826, after Turton, but Airy was appointed. William Whewell (who considered applying, but preferred both Herschel and Babbage to...

which circulate around amphidromic points. It was first discovered by William Whewell, who extrapolated the cotidal lines from the coast of the North Sea...

the given electric field strength. The term dielectric was coined by William Whewell (from dia + electric) in response to a request from Michael Faraday...

Hart Milman (23 February 1836) Sir Henry Holland (18 February 1840) William Whewell Charles Austin (7 March 1843) Thomas Pemberton Leigh, 1st Baron Kingsdown...

other technical fields and titles. The term physicist was coined by William Whewell (also the originator of the term "scientist") in his 1840 book The...

Origin of Species with a quotation from the Bridgewater Treatise of William Whewell. Before unexpectedly becoming the 8th Earl of Bridgewater in 1823,...