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The ascent of John Tyndall : Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual / Roland Jackson.

The ascent of John Tyndall : Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual / Roland Jackson.
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ISBN 9780198788959 (hardback)
Author Jackson, Roland (author)
Title The ascent of John Tyndall : Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual / Roland Jackson.
Edition First edition.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
©2018.
Description xx, 556 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Pt. I (c.1822--1850) FROM CARLOW TO MARBURG -- 1.Irish Beginnings (c.1822--1844) -- 2.Railway Mania (1844--1847) -- 3.Queenwood College (1847--1848) -- 4.Marburg (1848--1850) -- pt. II (1850--1860) BREAKING IN -- 5.Making a Name (1850--1853) -- 6.Clash of Theories (1854--1856) -- 7.Glacial Explorations (1856--1857) -- 8.Storms over Glaciers (1858--1860) -- pt. III (1860--1870) THE PEAK YEARS -- 9.Radiant Heat (1859--1862) -- 10.Heated Exchanges (1862--1865) -- 11.The X-Club (1864--1866) -- 12.Eyre Affair and Death of Faraday (1866--1868) -- 13.Prayer, Miracles, Metaphysics, and Spirits (1865--1880) -- 14.Mountaineering in the 1860s (1860--1868) -- 15.Clouds of Imagination (1868--1870) -- pt. IV (1870--1880) ESTABLISHMENT FIGURE -- 16.Dust and Disease (1870--1872) -- 17.Government Service and Education (1871--1892) -- 18.America (1872--1873) -- 19.Fogs and Glaciers (1873) -- 20.The Belfast Address (1873--1875) --
Contents note continued: 21.Floating Matter of the Air (1875--1876) -- 22.Contamination (1876--1878) -- 23.Electric Lights and Mining Accidents (1879--1886) -- pt. V (1880--1893) POLITICAL AFFAIRS -- 24.Hindhead (1880--1883) -- 25.Rainbows and Lighthouses (1883--1885) -- 26.The Final Years (1886--1893).
Summary John Tyndall was a leading scientific figure in Victorian Britain, who established the physical basis of the greenhouse effect, and why the sky is blue. This rich biography describes the colourful life and achievements of this brilliant communicator, physicist, and mountaineer, who ascended from humble beginnings to the heart of Victorian society.
Subjects Tyndall, John, -- 1820-1893
Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Mountaineers -- Great Britain -- Biography
Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901
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Ascent of John Tyndall
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