 In the early 1820s, Shepherd accompanied her husband to Cambridge while he studied for a master’s degree, awarded in 1823. Although there seems to be no record of the people she conversed with there, it might well be that William Whewell, who held a university fellowship at this time, was among them. She also may have meet Charles Babbage there; he was a friend of the couple later on and both of them corresponded with him. If she met Whewell at this time, it would be notable for several reasons. As the memoire records, it was he who made one of Shepherd’s works a university text book. He was deeply interested in devising a workable and productive method of empirical inquiry, but it was not until 1860 that his theory of scientific induction was accomplished (Snyder 2012). 