Author: John TYNDALL (F.R.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Sound. A course of eight lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Author: John TYNDALL (F.R.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Ascent of John Tyndall
Author: Roland JacksonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191093319
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Rising from a humble background in rural southern Ireland, John Tyndall became one of the foremost physicists, communicators of science, and polemicists in mid-Victorian Britain. In science, he is known for his important work in meteorology, climate science, magnetism, acoustics, and bacteriology. His discoveries include the physical basis of the warming of the Earth's atmosphere (the basis of the greenhouse effect), and establishing why the sky is blue. But he was also a leading communicator of science, drawing great crowds to his lectures at the Royal Institution, while also playing an active role in the Royal Society. Tyndall moved in the highest social and intellectual circles. A friend of Tennyson and Carlyle, as well as Michael Faraday and Thomas Huxley, Tyndall was one of the most visible advocates of a scientific world view as tensions grew between developing scientific knowledge and theology. He was an active and often controversial commentator, through letters, essays, speeches, and debates, on the scientific, political, and social issues of the day, with strongly stated views on Ireland, religion, race, and the role of women. Widely read in America, his lecture tour there in 1872-73 was a great success. Roland Jackson paints a picture of an individual at the heart of Victorian science and society. He also describes Tyndall's importance as a pioneering mountaineer in what has become known as the Golden Age of Alpinism. Among other feats, Tyndall was the first to traverse the Matterhorn. He presents Tyndall as a complex personality, full of contrasts, with his intense sense of duty, his deep love of poetry, his generosity to friends and his combativeness, his persistent ill-health alongside great physical stamina driving him to his mountaineering feats. Drawing on Tyndall's letters and journals for this first major biography of Tyndall since 1945, Jackson explores the legacy of a man who aroused strong opinions, strong loyalties, and strong enmities throughout his life.
Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Edward J. GillinPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003805256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Sound and Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well as a growing overseas empire, Britain was home to a rich scientific culture in which the ear was as valuable an organ as the eye for examining nature. Experiments on how sound behaved informed new understandings of how a diverse array of natural phenomena operated, notably those of heat, light, and electro-magnetism. In nineteenth-century Britain, sound was not just a phenomenon to be studied, but central to the practice of science itself and broader understandings over nature and the universe. This collection, accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Science.
The history of the Peloponnesian war, tr. by R. Crawley
Author: ThucydidesThe Politics of Aristotle
Author: Richard CongrevePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368826743
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
The Correlation of Physical Forces by W.R. Grove
Author: W. R. GroveTreatise on Mills and Millwork: On the principles of mechanism and on the prime movers
Author: Sir William FairbairnPublisher:
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Category : Machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Introduction and preliminary history. 2d ed
Author: Heinrich EwaldFragmentary Papers on Science and Other Subjects
Author: Henry HollandPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385380170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
System of Positive Polity: General view of positivism and introductory principles
Author: Auguste ComtePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description