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learned and scientific societies, and to scientific journals, papers on the 

 tides, beat, electricity, and magnetism ; and to the literary journals and 

 reviews miscellaneous papers on subjects literary, historical, and meta- 

 physical. In 1828 he was appointed Professor of Mineralogy in the 

 university. In order to perfect his knowledge of that branch of natural 

 science, he visited Gei*many and spent some time at the celebrated 

 mining-schools of Freiburg and Vienna. He resigned his mineralogi- 

 cal professorship in 1833; published his treatises on "Statics," "Me- 

 chanics," and " Dynamics," and bi'ought out his first great work, en- 

 titled "Astronomy and General Physics considered in their Relations 

 to Natural Theology." In this work Dr. Whewell breaks connection 

 wath the traditions of the experimental school, and abandons Bacon 

 and Locke, to range himself on the side of Kant, to whose philosophy 

 he had become a convert while in Germany. He also endeavored, 

 during this time, to make his countrymen acquainted with German 

 literature and art, of which he was a warm admirer. He translated 

 several gems of German literature, such as Goethe's " Hermann und 

 Dorothea," and "The Professor's Wife," of Auerbach, and published 

 "Notes on the Architecture of German Churches," which met with 

 great success in England. Among other works of less importance 

 published soon after, his "Thoughts on the Study of Mathematics as 

 Part of a Liberal Education," and, particularly, his "Mechanical 

 Euclid," gained considerable note. In 1837 he published his "History 

 of the Inductive Sciences from the Eai-liest to the Present Times." 



Dr. Whewell's thinking now seems to enter upon the road of phi- 

 losophy. During this same year he published " Four Sermons on the 

 Foundation of Morals," and in the following year (1838) he was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Moral Philosophy in the university. From this 

 time forward he occupied himself almost wholly with moral questions. 

 In 1840 he published a sequel to, or commentary on, his " Plistory of the 

 Inductive Sciences " under the title of " The Philosophy of the Inductive 

 Sciences," which was afterward enlarged and published as three sep- 

 arate works under the titles of " History of Scientific Ideas," " Novum 

 Organon Renovatum," and " On the Philosophy of Discovery." We 

 may add to these a fourth, "Indications of tlie Creator," consisting 

 of extracts bearing upon theology, from the " History " and " Philos- 

 ophy of the Inductive Sciences." In 1841 he was appointed Master of 

 Trinity, and was President of the British Association at its meeting 

 in Plymouth, The same year he also put out another mathematical 

 work, entitled the "Mechanics of Engineering." In 1845 he published 

 his " Elements of Morality, including Polity," " Lectures on Systematic 

 Morality," " On Liberal Education in General, and with Particular 

 Reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge." 

 The following year he issued another mathematical work on " Conic 

 Sections; their Principal Properties proved Geometrically." In 1852 

 he published " Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in Eng- 



