Documento 6.9 - William Whewell: anemometer papers

Zona de identificação

Código de referência

R./6.9

Título

William Whewell: anemometer papers

Data(s)

  • 1825-[1873] (Produção)

Nível de descrição

Documento

Dimensão e suporte

1 box

Zona do contexto

Nome do produtor

(1794-1866)

História biográfica

William Whewell was born in Lancaster on 24 May 1794, son of John Whewell, master carpenter. Whewell's talents were spotted by Joseph Rowley, Master of Lancaster Grammar School, who offered to teach him for free. When John Hudson, a Fellow of Trinityread more

Zona do conteúdo e estrutura

Âmbito e conteúdo

Accompanied by an earlier work on crystals, published in 1825, and Isaac Todhunter's list of the papers, c 1873.

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Unidades de descrição relacionadas

Forms part of the papers of William Whewell, housed under a variety of numbers in Additional Manuscripts a and c and Wren classes O and R. The collection is described briefly with all component parts listed in the collection level record linked below.

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Nota do arquivista

Item records created in 2020 by Diana Smith with reference to an undated box list and the index entitled "Report on the papers of William Whewell" compiled by the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in 1973.