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The Correspondence of John Tyndall. The Correspondence, September 1843-December 1849.
. Ed(S): Baldwin, Melinda; Browne, Janet
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Hardback. Editor(s): Baldwin, Melinda; Browne, Janet. Series: The Correspondence of John Tyndall. Num Pages: 444 pages, 4 b&w Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGTA; BJ; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. .
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 with him as a doctoral student of mathematics and experimental science at the University of Marburg, Germany. In between, Tyndall was fired from his position in the Ordnance Survey, worked as a railway surveyor at the height of British railway mania, read the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas ... Read more
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 with him as a doctoral student of mathematics and experimental science at the University of Marburg, Germany. In between, Tyndall was fired from his position in the Ordnance Survey, worked as a railway surveyor at the height of British railway mania, read the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press United States
Number of pages
444
Condition
New
Series
The Correspondence of John Tyndall
Number of Pages
444
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822944713
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V9780822944713
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About . Ed(S): Baldwin, Melinda; Browne, Janet
Melinda Baldwin is the author of Making Nature: The History of a Scientific Journal. She is currently the ACLS Oscar Handlin Fellow, and has held positions at York University, Harvard University, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Janet Browne is Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
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