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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Jackson, Roland, author.     Subjects     Tyndall, John, 1820-1893.     Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Mountaineers -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Intellectuals -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Science news -- Great Britain.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jackson, Roland, author.       by title:      The Ascent of John T...         MARC Display

The Ascent of John Tyndall : Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual / Roland Jackson. by Jackson, Roland, author. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018 Description:  xx, 556 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Introduction -- Part I. (c. 1822-1850) From Carlow to Marburg. Irish beginnings (c.1822-1844) -- Railway mania (1844-1847) -- Queenwood College (1847-1848) -- Marburg (1848-1850) -- Part II. (1850-1860) Breaking in. Making a name (1850-1853) -- Clash of theories (1854-1856) -- Glacial explorations (1856-1857) -- Storms over glaciers (1858-1860) -- Part III. (1860-1870) The peak years. Radiant heat (1859-1862) -- Heated exchanges (1862-1865) -- The X-club (1864-1866) -- Eyre affair and death of Faraday (1866-1868) -- Prayer, miracles, metaphysics, and spirits (1865-1880) -- Mountaineering in the 1860s (1860-1868) -- Clouds of imagination (1868-1870) -- Part IV. (1870-1880) Establishment figure. Dust and disease (1870-1872) -- Government service and education (1871-1892) -- America (1872-1873) -- Fogs and glaciers (1873) -- The Belfast address (1873-1875) -- Floating matter of the air (1875-1876) -- Contamination (1876-1878) -- Electric lights and mining accidents (1879-1886) -- Part V. (1880-1893) Political affairs. Hindhead (1880-1883) -- Rainbows and lighthouses (1883-1885) -- The final years (1886-1893) -- Epilogue. Genre:  Biographies   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 509.2 Jac 2018 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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