Item 6.3 - William Whewell: drafts of Lectures on systematic morality and lectures on Plato from 1847 to 1857

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Reference code

R./6.3

Title

William Whewell: drafts of Lectures on systematic morality and lectures on Plato from 1847 to 1857

Date(s)

  • [c 1846]-1857 (Creation)

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Item

Extent and medium

1 box

Context area

Name of creator

(1794-1866)

Biographical history

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

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Scope and content

With notes by Isaac Todhunter throughout, with a list in his hand of the MSS connected with Plato; these lectures on Plato may have served as early drafts of The Platonic dialogues for English readers and include drafts of an introduction to a work ofread more

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Related units of description

See also the page proofs of Lectures on systematic morality, R.6.8.1.
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 allread more

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Archivist's note

Item record created in 2020 by Diana Smith with reference to the index entitled "Report on the papers of William Whewell" compiled by the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in 1973.