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The Correspondence of John Tyndall. The Correspondence, May 1840-August 1843.
. Ed(S): Cantor, Geoffrey; Dawson, Gowan
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Hardback. Editor(s): Cantor, Geoffrey; Dawson, Gowan. Series: The Correspondence of John Tyndall. Num Pages: 544 pages, 5 b&w Illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. .
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 an open letter to the prime minister, Robert Peel, protesting the pay and conditions on the English Survey in August 1843. The letters, which include Tyndall's earliest extant correspondence, encompass some of the most significant events of the early 1840s. Tyndall's correspondents also discuss their experiences of British military expansion in India ... Read more
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 an open letter to the prime minister, Robert Peel, protesting the pay and conditions on the English Survey in August 1843. The letters, which include Tyndall's earliest extant correspondence, encompass some of the most significant events of the early 1840s. Tyndall's correspondents also discuss their experiences of British military expansion in India ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
Series
The Correspondence of John Tyndall
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822944706
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V9780822944706
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About . Ed(S): Cantor, Geoffrey; Dawson, Gowan
Geoffrey Cantor is professor emeritus of the history of science at the University of Leeds and senior honorary research associate at University College, London. He is past president of the British Society for the History of Science. His research has focus Gowan Dawson is Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Leicester and Honorary Research ... Read more
Reviews for The Correspondence of John Tyndall. The Correspondence, May 1840-August 1843.
“Correspondence projects like this one undoubtedly provide rich materials for future historians—and raise a host of new questions that we might not previously have even thought to ask.” —Times Literary Supplement