Both Whewell and Sedgwick wrote worried letters to him about this.

That same year he wrote his Horace at the University of Athens, a topical drama in verse, parts of which are said to have offended William Whewell and lost Trevelyan a fellowship.

However, its crude vehemence was ill suited to fashionable society, and Whewell wrote " To me the material appears excellent, but the workmanship bad, and I doubt if it will do its work.

While the History traced how each branch of the sciences had evolved since antiquity, Whewell viewed the Philosophy as the " Moral " of the previous work as it sought to extract a universal theory of knowledge through the history he had just traced.

He was the son of John Gorham Maitland ( 1818 – 1863 ), and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, being bracketed at the head of the moral sciences tripos of 1872, and winning a Whewell scholarship for international law.

" The two terms, uniformitarianism and catastrophism, were both coined by William Whewell ; in 1866 R. Grove suggested the simpler term continuity for Lyell's view, but the old terms persisted.

Members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science had been complaining about the lack of a good term at recent meetings, Whewell reported in his review ; alluding to himself, he noted that " some ingenious gentleman proposed that, by analogy with artist, they might form word scientist, and added that there could be no scruple in making free with this term since we already have such words as economist, and atheist — but this was not generally palatable ".

The term " moral sense " ( which, it may be noticed, had already been employed by Shaftesbury, not only, as William Whewell suggests, in the margin, but also in the text of his Inquiry ), if invariably coupled with the term " moral judgement ," would be open to little objection ; but, taken alone, as designating the complex process of moral approbation, it is liable to lead not only to serious misapprehension but to grave practical errors.

William Whewell FRS FGS, ( ; 24 May 1794 – 6 March 1866 ) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science.

Whewell also contributed the terms physicist, consilience, catastrophism, and uniformitarianism, amongst others ; Whewell suggested the terms ion, dielectric, anode, and cathode to Michael Faraday.

* Whewell, W., Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology ; Bridgewater Treatises, W. Pickering, 1833 ( reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009 ; ISBN 978-1-108-00012-3 )

Jevons ' general theory of induction was a revival of the theory laid down by Whewell and criticized by John Stuart Mill ; but it was put in a new form, and was free from some of the non-essential adjuncts which rendered Whewell's exposition open to attack.

Thompson had succeeded William Whewell as Master and proved a worthy successor ; the twenty years of his mastership were years of progress, and he himself took an active part in the abolition of tests ( in particular the compulsory religious tests ) and the reform of university studies and of the college statutes.

James Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law, Cambridge ;

While at university he read Tennyson and Hallam ; his close friends there were George Darby, Julius Hare, William Whewell, and Adam Sedgwick.

* William Whewell ( 1794 – 1866 ), scientist ;

The terms uniformitarianism for this idea, and catastrophism for the opposing viewpoint, were coined by William Whewell in a review of Lyell's book.

Mary P. Winsor, Ron Amundson and Staffan Müller-Wille have each argued that in fact the usual suspects ( such as Linnaeus and the Ideal Morphologists ) were very far from being essentialists, and it appears that the so-called " essentialism story " ( or " myth ") in biology is a result of conflating the views expressed by philosophers from Aristotle onwards through to John Stuart Mill and William Whewell in the immediately pre-Darwinian period, using biological examples, with the use of terms in biology like species.

* William Whewell publishes The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, introducing the terms scientist ( for the second time ) and physicist.

However, the word scientist is relatively recent — first coined by William Whewell in the 19th century.

Dr. Whewell, the mathematician and philosopher, was a Vice-president of the meeting: he was instructed to select the reporter.

Crater Whewell is named after the 19th Century philosopher and naturalist, William Whewell.

Whewellite was named after William Whewell ( 1794-1866 ), an English polymath, naturalist and scientist, professor of moral philosophy at Cambridge and inventor of the system of crystallographic indexing.

In a comment on the arguments of the 1830s, William Whewell coined the term uniformitarianism to describe Lyell's version of the ideas, contrasted with the catastrophism of those who supported the early 19th century concept that geological ages recorded a series of catastrophes followed by repopulation by a new range of species.

The term " Physicist " was coined by English philosopher, priest, and historian of science William Whewell in 1840, to denote a cultivator of physics.

English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell coined the term scientist in 1833, and it was first published in Whewell's anonymous 1834 review of Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences published in the Quarterly Review.

The term uniformitarianism was coined by William Whewell, who also coined the term catastrophism for the idea that the Earth was shaped by a series of sudden, short-lived, violent events.

The term scientist was coined by William Whewell in an 1834 review of Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Sciences.

The term " dielectric " was coined by William Whewell ( from " dia-electric ") in response to a request from Michael Faraday.

The term " Laplace's coefficients " was employed by William Whewell to describe the particular system of solutions introduced along these lines, whereas others reserved this designation for the zonal spherical harmonics that had properly been introduced by Laplace and Legendre.

In biology of the Inductive Sciences Whewell was the first to use the term " consilience " to discuss the unification of knowledge between the different branches of learning.

In fact, Whewell came up with the term scientist itself.

The naturalist-theologian William Whewell was the one who coined the term " scientist ".

* March-William Whewell ( anonymously ) first publishes the term scientist in the Quarterly Review, but notes it as " not generally palatable ".

The term " scientist " was coined by William Whewell in an 1834 review of her On the Connexion of the Sciences.

* March 6 – William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science ( b. 1794 )

* May 24 – William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science ( d. 1866 )

* March 6-William Whewell, philosopher and theologian

* May 24-William Whewell, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science ( died 1866 )

* March 6-William Whewell ( born 1794 ), scientist, philosopher, and historian of science

* May 24-William Whewell, scientist, philosopher, and historian of science ( died 1866 )

The Professorship was established in 1868 by the will of the 19th-century scientist and moral philosopher, William Whewell, with a view to devising " such measures as may tend to diminish the causes of war and finally to extinguish war between nations ".

For example, such discussions permeate the historical writings of the great historian and philosopher of science William Whewell.