Book ID: CBB602324921

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 7: The Correspondence, March 1859 - May 1862 (2019)

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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. It ends with the start of his championship of Julius Robert Mayer’s work on the mechanical equivalent of heat. In between, Tyndall carefully establishes his own priority for his work on radiant heat, and he accepts the position of professor of physics at the Government School of Mines. The lure of the Alps also becomes ever stronger. In this period comes perhaps Tyndall’s greatest mountaineering achievement, the first ascent of the Weisshorn, and a remarkable winter visit to Chamonix and the Mer de Glace. As his reputation grows, Tyndall continues to make his way in society. He is elected to the elite Athenaeum Club on January 31, 1860.

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Authors & Contributors
Evans, Samantha
Dawson, Gowan
Browne, E. Janet
Baldwin, Melinda Clare
Barton, Michael D.
Göbel, Roman
Concepts
Correspondence and corresponding
Primary literature (historical sources)
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Physics
Collected correspondence
Biographies
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Germany
England
London (England)
Russia
Bavaria (Germany)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Royal Institution of Great Britain
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