Richard R. Yeo

‘John Herschel's Preliminary Discourse (1830) and Manual of Scientific Enquiry (1849): the question of amateur contributions to elite science’

In his Preliminary Discourse (1830), John Herschel (1792-1871) set the scene for discussions of induction as the method of scientific inquiry, such as those carried on by William Whewell (1794-1866) and J. S Mill (1806-1873). Another less-noticed theme of his book is the focus on...