In 'On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical', William Whewell delves into the intricate relationship between scientific discovery and philosophical inquiry.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This book reprints the first edition in facsimile, together with a vigorous response to his critics that Whewell added later and new introductory and bibliographic material by noted Darwin scholar Michael Ruse.

This 1876 biography of one of Trinity College's most distinguished masters reflects a typically nineteenth-century fusion of religion and science.