Bridgewater Treatises
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The Bridgewater Treatises are a series of eight works that were written by leading scientific figures appointed by the President of the Royal Society in fulfilment of a bequest of £8000, made by Franc
A set of the Bridgewater Treatises, rebound in leather, together with Charles Babbage's Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
William Whewell
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William Whewell was an English polymath. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his time as a student there, he achieved distinction in both poetry and mathematics.
Bridgewater Treatises
…religion and science. They made such an impact that Charles Darwin began On the Origin of Species with a quotation from the Bridgewater Treatise of William Whewell. Before unexpectedly becoming the 8th Earl of Bridgewater in 1823, Francis Henry Egerton spent most of his life as an absentee parson. He published…
Portrait of W. Whewell; stipple engraving Wellcome L0014766
Portrait of William Whewell, c. 1863
William Whewell, c. 1860s
Statue of Whewell by Thomas Woolner in Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge