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Herbert Butterfield (October 28, 1895 – May 2, 1957) was an actor best known for his work in American radio. Career. Perhaps his major roles on radio were ...
Sir Herbert Butterfield FBA (7 October 1900 – 20 July 1979) was an English historian and philosopher of history, who was Regius Professor of Modern History and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. [ 3] He is remembered chiefly for a short volume early in his career entitled The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) and for his ...
Herb Butterfield was born on 28 October 1895 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was an actor, known for The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), The Halls of Ivy (1954) and Shield for Murder (1954). He was married to Mildred Siemon.
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Nov 28, 2011 · A comprehensive and sympathetic biography of the controversial historian and theologian Herbert Butterfield, who challenged the Whig interpretation of history and explored the relationship between science, God and history. The book draws on private sources and covers his life, work and legacy in three sections.
From Simon & Schuster, Herbert Butterfield's The Origins of Modern Science chronicles the history of contemporary scientific theory.In The Origins of Modern Science Professor Herbert Butterfield argues that past scientific achievements cannot be viewed through the filter of 20th century eyes, but can be understood only in the historical and political context of an era.
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Herbert Butterfield was an important British historian and religious thinker whose ideas, in particular his concept of a “Whig interpretation of history,” remain deeply influential. This biography focuses on the creative processes that lay behind Butterfield's intellectual accomplishments. Drawing on his investigations into Butterfield's ...
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May 15, 2013 · The first full-length biography of Butterfield was C. Thomas McIntire’s Herbert Butterfield: Historian as Dissenter. The burden of McIntire’s work was to present a Butterfield who was at once an accomplished and disciplined historian and one standing in the English Protestant Dissenting tradition—Methodism being much more closely associated with the English Free Churches (“Protestant Dissent”) than with the (state) Church of England.
