Unidad documental simple 15 - William Whewell to Richard Jones

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Lancaster - WW gives RJ a list of books from the public library which may be of interest - mainly concerned with banks, trade and coinage. WW's 'book is swelling out larger than I expected' ['A Treatise on Dynamics', 1823]. He still meditates 'doing something about the history of the Metaphysics of Mechanics though as yet it is only intention. Something like Smith's [Adam Smith] History of Astronomy but with more historical facts - But if you can help me to get rid of that word of abomination metaphysical I shall be exceedingly obliged to you - I hope you have not inhaled your wrath and brought yourself into anything like charity with it for you may depend on it that no conviction or management will even make it permanently faithful to inductive philosophy'.