Whewell, William
(male)
05/24/1794 - 03/06/1866
English
Trinity College, Cambridge
College head and writer on the history and philosophy of science; wrote An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics (1819), A Treatise on Dynamics (1823), History of the Inductive Sciences (1837) and many other works; was Master of Trinity. See Boase III: 1301-2, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)