ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the thirties Whewell began to study the history of empirical sciences; the results of these investigations were pub lished in his three-volume History of the Inductive Sciences in 1837. Three years later he published Philosophy o f the Inductive Sciences which he later expanded first into two, then three, volumes under the titles The History o f Scientific Ideas (2 vols.), and Novum Organon Renovatum. On the Philosophy o f Discovery appeared in 1860. Whewell’s other publications were in the areas of natural science and moral philosophy: Astronomy and General Physics Considered in R eference to Natural Theology (1834), M echanical Euclid (1837), Elements o f Morality (2 vols., 1845), Lectures on Systematic Morality (1846), and Lectures on Moral Philosophy in England (1852). He died at Cambridge on March 6, 1866.
