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Err, my bad. I initially quoted a lot more and then trimmed it down, but deleted the wrong part. Let me try again: >From Todhunter's biography [9] we learn tha
by Arnavion 6y ago
Err, my bad. I initially quoted a lot more and then trimmed it down, but deleted the wrong part. Let me try again:
>From Todhunter's biography [9] we learn that the reviewer was William Whewell, F.R.S. Whewell wrote:
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>/Philosophers/ was felt to be too wide and too lofty a term, and was very properly forbidden them by Mr. Coleridge, both in his capacity of philologer and metaphysician; /sarans/ was rather assuming, besides being French instead of English; some ingenious gentleman [Whewell himself] proposed that, by analogy with /artist/, they might form /scientist/ [...]
The "[Whewell himself]" is an interjection by Sydney Ross. As I said that entire section is cited to the Todhunter biography, so I assumed Ross had found something in the the biography that would verify that Whewell was referring to himself, but I couldn't find it myself.
- ska 6y agoAh, gotcha. Above I wondered if it might be a self reference also but couldn't see from the text. Either way I think the rest stands.