The Life and Selections from the Correspondence of William Whewell, D.D., late Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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1881 · London:

by [WHEWELL, William (1794-1866)] Mrs. Stair [Janet Mary] DOUGLAS (c.1830-1922).
London:: C. Kegan Paul, 1881., 1881. 8vo. xv, [1], 591, [1], 31, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait, index, ads; some pencil marginalia, foxed. Original full olive green cloth with black rules, gilt-stamping; rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Charles James Fox Bunbury. Signed by George Ellery Hale, 1907; embossed stamp of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Mount Wilson Observatory. SIGNED BY GEORGE ELLERY HALE. First edition. "One of Whewell's greatest gifts to science was his word-smithing. He corresponded with many in his field and helped them come up with neologisms for their discoveries. Whewell coined, among other terms, scientist, physicist, linguistics, consilience, catastrophism, uniformitarianism, and astigmatism; he suggested to Michael Faraday the terms electrode, ion, dielectric, anode, and cathode." – Wikip. PROVENANCE: Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th Baronet of Barton Hall, Suffolk (1809-1886), English naturalist and Fellow of the Royal Society. – George Ellery Hale (1868-1938), astrophysicist, director of Mount Wilson Observatory – Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California. (Inventory #: S14340)
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