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See also:CARPENTER, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:BENJAMIN (1813-1885) , See also:English physiologist and naturalist, was See also:born at See also:Exeter on the 29th of See also:October 1813. He was the eldest son of Dr Lant Carpenter. He attended medical classes at University See also:College, See also:London, and then went to See also:Edinburgh, where he took the degree of M.D. in 1839. The subject of his See also:graduation thesis, " The Physiological Inferences to be Deduced from the Structure of the See also:Nervous See also:System of Invertebrated Animals," indicates a See also:line of See also:research which had fruition in his Principles of See also:General and See also:Comparative See also:Physiology. His See also:work in comparative neurology was recognized in 1844 by his See also:election to the Royal Society, which awarded him a Royal See also:medal in 1861; and his See also:appointment as Fullerian See also:professor of physiology in the Royal Institution in 1845 enabled him to exhibit his See also:powers as a teacher and lecturer, his See also:gift of ready speech and luminous See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation placing him in the front See also:rank of exponents, at a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time when the popularization of See also:science was in its See also:infancy. His manifold labours as investigator, author, editor, demonstrator and lecturer knew no cessation through See also:life; but in assessing the value of his work, prominence should be given to his researches in marine See also:zoology, notably in the See also:lower organisms, as See also:Foraminifera and Crinoids. These researches gave an impetus to deep-See also:sea exploration, an outcome of which was in. 1868 the " See also:Lightning," and later the more famous " Challenger," expedition. He took a keen and laborious See also:interest in the See also:evidence adduced by See also:Canadian geologists as to the organic nature of the so-called Eozoon Canadense, discovered in the Laurentian strata, and at the time of his See also:death had nearly finished a monograph on the subject, defending the now discredited theory of its See also:animal origin. He was an See also:adept in the use, of the See also:microscope, and his popular See also:treatise on The Microscope and its Revelations (1856) has stimulated a See also:host of observers to the use of the " added sense " with which it has endowed See also:man. In 1856 Carpenter became registrar of the university of London, and held the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office for twenty-three years; on his resignation in 1879 he was made a C.B. in 'recognition of his services to See also:education generally. Biologist as he was, Carpenter nevertheless made reservations as to the See also:extension of the See also:doctrine of See also:evolution to man's intellectual and spiritual nature. In his Principles of See also:Mental Physiology he asserted both the freedom of the will and the existence of the " Ego," and one of his last public engagements was the See also:reading of a See also:paper in support of miracles. He died in London, from injuries occasioned by the accidental upsetting of a spirit-See also:lamp, on the 19th of See also:November 1885.
End of Article: CARPENTER, WILLIAM BENJAMIN (1813-1885)
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