Item 5-8 - Notes, fragments, and portions of drafts related to History of the inductive sciences

Identity area

Reference code

R./18.10/5-8

Title

Notes, fragments, and portions of drafts related to History of the inductive sciences

Date(s)

  • 1829, [c 1835?] (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

c 130 ff.

Context area

Name of creator

Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science
(1794-1866)

Repository

Trinity College Library, Cambridge

Archival history

Includes an item previously housed as R.18.8/26.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Includes an undated draft of a letter to an unidentified French expert on Augustin Fresnel, a printed broadsheet headed "Chemical Elements according to their combinations with oxygen and hydrogen" and "Mineralogical species according to their chemical… read more

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