Item 138 - William Whewell to Richard Jones

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Add. MS c/51/138

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William Whewell to Richard Jones

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  • 1 July 1832 (Creation)

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3 pp.

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

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Trinity College - WW is sorry RJ is ill: 'The only moral I can extract from such anticipations is the importance of getting our speculations in to such a form that no calamity or adversity shall have the power, by putting an end to us or to the command of our faculties, to destroy the chance of our beautiful theories coming upon the world, in our time or afterwards...You know as well as I do that those who theorise rightly are in the end the lords of the earth'. The BAAS meeting at Oxford went very well.

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