Mathematician:William Whewell

English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. Originator of many new scientific terms, including "ion," "cathode," "Eocene," "Miocene," "physicist," and "scientist."

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 24 May 1794 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England
 * Died: 6 March 1866 in Cambridge, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Whewell Equation

Books and Papers

 * 1819: An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics
 * 1823: A Treatise on Dynamics
 * 1828: Essay on Mineralogical Classification and Nomenclature
 * 1830: Architectural Notes on German Churches, with Remarks on the Origin of Gothic Architecture
 * 1831: Review of J. Herschel's Preliminary discourse on the study of Natural Philosophy (1830)
 * 1833: Astronomy and general physics considered with reference to Natural Theology
 * 1837: History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Times (3 vols)
 * 1837: On the Foundation of Morals
 * 1839: The Mechanical Euclid, containing the Elements of Mechanics and Hydrostatics demonstrated after the Manner of the Elements of Geometry
 * 1840: The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, founded upon their history (2 vols)
 * 1845: The Elements of Morality, including polity (2 vols)
 * 1846: Lectures on systematic Morality
 * 1849: Of Induction, with especial reference to Mr. J. Stuart Mill's System of Logic
 * 1849: Of the Intrinsic Equation of a Curve, and its Application
 * 1850: Mathematical exposition of some doctrines of political economy: second memoir
 * 1852: Lectures on the history of Moral Philosophy
 * 1853: Hugonis Grotii de jure belli et pacis libri tres : accompanied by an abridged translation by William Whewell
 * 1853: Of the Plurality of Worlds
 * 1858: The history of scientific ideas (2 vols)
 * 1858: Novum Organon renovatum
 * 1860: On the philosophy of discovery: chapters historical and critical
 * 1861: Plato's Republic (translation)
 * 1862: Six Lectures on Political Economy
 * 1862: Additional Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy
 * 1866: Comte and Positivism