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Birth of William Whewell and early life
William Whewell was a British philosopher who helped queen term still used today and performed experiments well ahead of his time. William Whewell was born May 24th, 1794. William was born in Lancaster in a time where England is recovering from a grueling war with colonial America. Williams's father was a carpenter. At the time that particular trade was very popular. Williams father wanted him to follow in his footsteps and take up an apprenticeship. -
William Whewell's Scientific Research
Willam had a famous ground breaking experiment known as "Great Tide Experiment" (1835) this experiment tested what was happening on each coast (Europe and America). Experiment was grounding breaking because for the time it was very difficult to coordinate people to help with this investigation. William was able to find 650 volunteers in nine nations to help with this experiment. Each volunteer made observations every 15 minutes for the next two weeks. -
William Whewell's major publications
William Whewell's major publications include " A History of the Inductive Sciences" (1837) which outlines sciences throughout time. " The Philosophy of Inductive Sciences" (1840) this publication was a trilogy about the methods of physical sciences. William didn't only publish books he coined many terms scientist use today. For example William created the word "Scientist". This is actually very interesting because this is a fairly recent time period for the term to be coined. -
William Whewell's death and legacy
William Whewell unfortunately perished on March 6th, 1866. This was a sad day in the science community because he created a better understanding of the world around us with his vocabulary. William was a great scientist/ Philosopher. Whewell studied a variety of sciences to include mineralogy, geology, meteorology, chemistry and many more.
