Sir William Hamilton
1730-1803
English Archaeologist and Geologist
During his many years as British envoy to the court of Naples (1764-1800), Sir William Hamilton conducted extensive archaeological in...
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The nineteenth-century revival of logic in Britain, inaugurated by Whately and continued by, among others, George Bentham, chrétien, and Solly, owed much of its later impetus to the co...
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Hamilton, William(1788–1856)
William Hamilton, the Scottish philosopher and logician, was born in Glasgow and was educated at Glasgow, at Edinburgh, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he too...
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Today Sir William Hamilton, ninth baronet of Preston, is little more than a footnote in philosophy texts and histories. In his own time, however, he was regarded as one of the greatest and most erudit...
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Sir William Hamilton