Susan Faye Cannon, born Walter Faw Cannon (1925, Durham, North Carolina – 1981) was an American historian of science. Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Durham is a city in the US state of North Carolina. It is the County seat of Durham County Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
The son of James Cannon III (1892-1960), Dean of Duke University Divinity School, Walter F. Duke University is a private Research University located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Cannon gained a degree in physics at Princeton University. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. [1]. Turning to history of science, his PhD (Harvard University, 1956) was titled 'On uniformity and progression in early Victorian cosmography'. Science is a body of empirical, theoretical, and practical knowledge about the natural world, produced by a global community of researchers In the early 1960s he wrote influential articles on uniformitarian geology, the 'Cambridge network', William Whewell's tidology, John Herschel, the relation of Charles Darwin to William Paley, liberal Anglicanism, and the general place of science in nineteenth-century culture. Uniformitarianism in the Philosophy of science, is the assumption that the natural processes operating in the past are the same as those that can be observed operating in the William Whewell ( May 24, 1794 &ndash March 6, 1866) was an English Polymath, Scientist, Anglican Priest Sir John Frederick William Herschel 1st Baronet KH, FRS ( March 7, 1792 &ndash May 11, 1871)was an Charles Robert Darwin (February 12 1809 &ndash April 19 1882 was an English naturalist, who realised and demonstrated that all Species of life William Paley (July 1743 &ndash 25 May 1805) was a British Christian apologist, Philosopher, and utilitarian. Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs From 1962 to 1979 Cannon was curator of classical physics and geosciences at the Smithsonian Institute. The Smithsonian Institution (smɪθsoʊnɪən is an educational and research institute and associated Museum complex administered and funded by the Government of He founded and was the first editor of the Smithsonian Journal of History. In 1976 Cannon changed his name to Susan Faye Cannon, thereafter referring to himself as a 'male woman'. [2]
Works
- "The Problem of Miracles in the 1830s", Victorian Studies 4 (1960), 5-32.
- "The Impact of Uniformitarianism: Two Letters from John Herschel to Charles Lyell, 1836-37," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 105 (1961) 310-14.
- "The Uniformitarian-Catastrophist Debate," Isis 51 (1960) 38-55.
- "John Herschel and the Idea of Science," Journal of the History of Ideas, 22 (1961), 215-39
- "Scientists and Broad Churchmen: An Early Victorian Intellectual Network", Journal of British Studies 4 (1964): 65–88.
- Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period, 1978.
References
- Morrell, J. B. , 'Susan Faye Cannon (Walter Faw Cannon) 15 October 1925-6 November 1981', Isis, Vol. 74, No. 1. (Mar. , 1983), p. 88.
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