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.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521431824
• ISBN13: 9780521431828
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"