Discourse on the Studies of the University (Victorian Library)

Sedgwick, Adam

ISBN 10: 0718550048 / ISBN 13: 9780718550042

Published by Leicester University Press, 1969

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DJ may have small chips and tears. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Discourse on the Studies of the University (Victorian Library)
• Publisher: Leicester University Press
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718550048
• ISBN 13: 9780718550042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Adam Sedgwick (1785 1873) was Professor of Geology at Cambridge from 1818, and in 1819 helped to found the Cambridge Philosophical Society. The 'Discourse' at the heart of this book first appeared in 1833. In it he urged students to develop their characters in this 'place of sound learning and Christian education'. He describes the subjects studied in the university - the 'laws of nature', ancient literature and language, and ethics and metaphysics - and their purpose in the service of God. By the time this fifth edition was published in 1850, however, the book had (as Charles Darwin put it in a letter to the author) 'wonderfully grown', with a Preface of 422 pages and an appendix, ranging very widely over the scientific and philosophical debates of the day, as well as ethics and religion. It provides a fascinating overview of a period of scientific revolution for historians of science and education.