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Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 1
The Correspondence, May 1840–August 1843
Av Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson
Inbunden, 2016
2089 kr
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The 230 letters in this inaugural volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall chart Tyndall's emergence into early adulthood, spanning from his arrival in Youghal in May 1840 as a civil assistant with just a year's experience working on the Irish Ordnance Survey to his pseudonymous authorship of …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 2
The Correspondence, September 1843–December 1849
Av Melinda Clare Baldwin Fulford, Janet Browne
Inbunden, 2016
2218 kr
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The 161 letters in this volume encompass a period of dramatic change for the young John Tyndall, who would become one of Victorian Britain's most famous physicists. They begin in September 1843, in the midst of a fiery public conflict with the Ordnance Survey of England, and end in December 1849 …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 3
The Correspondence, January 1850–December 1852
Av Ruth Barton, Jeremiah Rankin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
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As this volume begins, John Tyndall was a PhD student living in Marburg. He was unknown, almost broke, and working himself to the brink of mental and physical exhaustion in his determination to forge a reputation in science. In the period covered by this volume, he completed his degree, published …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 4
The Correspondence, January 1853–December 1854
Av Ian Hesketh, Efram Sera-Shriar
Inbunden, 2018
2089 kr
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The 329 letters in this volume represent a period of immense transition in John Tyndall's life. A noticeable spike in his extant correspondence during the early 1850s is linked to his expanding international network, growing reputation as a leading scientific figure in Britain and abroad, and his …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 5
The Correspondence, January 1855–October 1856
Av William H. Brock, Geoffrey Cantor
Inbunden, 2018
2089 kr
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This volume contains 266 letters covering a period of twenty-two months, when Tyndall was in his midthirties and had been employed by the Royal Institution as professor of natural philosophysince September 1853. Many of the letters printed here concern the lectures he delivered at the RI and other …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 6
The Correspondence, November 1856-February 1859
Av Michael D. Barton, Janet Browne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2089 kr
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This sixth volume of Tyndall's correspondence contains 302 letters covering a period of twenty-eight months (1856-1859). It begins shortly after Tyndall returned from his first glacier research in the Alps and follows him as he experimented and lectured on physics in central London at the Royal …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 7, The
The Correspondence, March 1859-May 1862
Av Diarmid A. Finnegan, Roland Jackson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2089 kr
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The 308 letters in this volume cover a critical period in Tyndall’s personal and scientific lives. The volume begins with the difficult ending of his relationship with the Drummond family, disputes about his work in glaciology, and his early seminal work on the absorption of radiant heat by gases. …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 8
The Correspondence, June 1862-January 1865
Av Piers J. Hale, Elizabeth Neswald m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2089 kr
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The 318 letters in this volume reveal a great deal about Tyndall’s personality, the development of his career, and his role in attempting to better establish science as a respectable and professional enterprise. However, Tyndall was not above controversy, and on more than one occasion he entered …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 11
The Correspondence, January 1869-February 1871
Av Adrian Kirwan, Elizabeth Neswald
Inbunden, 2022
2089 kr
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The eleventh volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall covers the period from January 1869 to the end of February 1871 and contains 427 letters with more than 130 individual correspondents, as well as letters to several newspapers. These years find Tyndall an internationally established …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 12
The Correspondence, March 1871-May 1872
Av Anne DeWitt, Kathleen Sheppard
Inbunden, 2023
2089 kr
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The twelfth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall contains 326 letters and covers the fifteen months of Tyndall’s life from March 1871 through May 1872, a time when he was a central figure in the field and had a substantial reputation in both the UK and the United States. It begins just …
Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 17
The Correspondence, December 1881-November 1885
Av Ian Hesketh, Martin Hewitt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2028
2282 kr
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The seventeenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall includes 456 letters, documenting a pivotal period in his life. It opens with Tyndall’s resignation from his long-held post as scientific adviser to the Board of Trade and Trinity House, a decision that provoked a very public dispute with …
