John Tyndall was one of the most influential scientists of the nineteenth century. His correspondents read like a ‘who’s who’ of international science and include: Charles Babbage, Louis Pasteur and Bertrand Russell. Published serially with two volumes per year, this scholarly edition will ultimately present over 7,000 of his letters.
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"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
| Acknowledgements |
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| Foreword |
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| General Introduction |
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| Select Bibliography of Major Scholarly Works on John Tyndall |
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xxvii | |
| Acknowledgements |
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xxxvii | |
| Introduction to Volume 1 |
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xxxix | |
| Editorial Principles |
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| Note on Money |
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lix | |
| Timeline of John Tyndall's Life |
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lxi | |
| Timeline of Events in John Tyndall's Life Specific to Volume 1 |
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The Correspondence, May 1840--August 1843 |
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1 | (422) |
| Biographical Register |
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423 | (28) |
| Appendix: John Tyndall's Role in the Ordnance Survey of Ireland |
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451 | (10) |
| Index |
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James Elwick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Technology at York University Toronto, where he studies the history of written science examinations and works on the history of the life sciences. In 2011 he was the recipient of the Faculty of Science and Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award. Previous publications for Pickering & Chatto include Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences (2007) and Victorian Science and Literature (co-editor Volume 4) (2011). Bernard Lightman is Professor of Humanities at York University, where his research and teaching focuses on European intellectual history, nineteenth-century British history and the history of modern science. He is the series editor for Pickering & Chatto's series Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century and is the editor of Pickering & Chatto's multi-volume collection, Victorian Science and Literature (2011, 2012). Michael S Reidy is Professor of History at Montana State University, where his research interests include the history of science and technology, the history of mountaineering and the history of oceans. He is Chair of the MSU Faculty Senate and was awarded the President's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2012. He is the co-editor (with Bernard Lightman) of Pickering & Chatto's monograph The Age of Scientific Naturalism (2014). Geoffrey Cantor is Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds and an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL. His research interests include the history of physics, science and religion, science in the nineteenth century periodical press, and biography and the role of psychobiography. He is on the editorial board of Pickering & Chatto's series Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century and the editor of the multi-volume collection The Great Exhibition (Pickering & Chatto: 2013) Gowan Dawson is Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Leicester, where his research interests include the cultural history of Victorian science and nineteenth century print culture. He is the General Editor (with Bernard Lightman) of Pickering & Chatto's multi-volume collection Victorian Science and Literature (2011-12).
