John Tyndall
@ProfTyndall
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Natural philosopher and mountaineer. My new biography THE ASCENT OF JOHN TYNDALL in paperback 23 July 2020. Alter ego @roland_jackson
Mostly London and Switzerland
Joined October 2012
I will be in paperback around 23 July!.If you would like, you can pre-order.
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RT @darwinsbulldog: Transcription help: letter from Stanley to Tyndall (1880): "I suppose that the Telegraphic m[ee]t[in]g will take up the….
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Those were the days.
I had forgotten about this Tyndall letter. It remains extremely funny.
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I see that my good friend Thomas Carlyle has been 'cancelled' by @TheLondonLib by having his bust removed, and the discounted Carlyle membership appears to have gone. I'm hoping my books won't be banned there.
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RT @melissaldickson: My book has a cover, and it will be out in the new year! #litsci #litmed #soundstudies #medhums
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RT @Herschels_Astro: John Herschel was much more than just an astronomer. My latest book explains why: https://t.co….
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RT @diarmidf: I wrote a short piece for @ConversationUK on @ProfTyndall's infamous Belfast Address, delivered 150 years ago this coming Mon….
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Tyndall was an early supporter of the idea that matter can be conscious.
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RT @diarmidf: Delighted to be involved in this @HeritageWeek event. I'll be talking about @ProfTyndall 's Belfast lecture, exactly 150 year….
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Well, I'd never claim I discovered the greenhouse effect, as I made clear in my 1861 paper that Fourier and others have precedence. But I did provide experimental evidence for its physical mechanism. (Also I was probably born c.1822 rather than 1820).
The greenhouse effect is the phenomenon that traps our Sun's heat in our atmosphere. It was first discovered by John Tyndall FRS (born #OnThisDay in 1820), and the intrepid Raghav heads into our archive to find out more about some portraits of John & his wife Louisa:
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RT @Roland_Jackson: Just received my early copy of the new Henry Roscoe biography by Peter Morris and Peter Reed, which I enjoyed reading i….
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RT @Roland_Jackson: Rededication this afternoon of the gravestone of @ProfTyndall and Louisa in Haslemere, complete with reading of his poe….
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I have to admit, Eunice Foote does deserve to be better known #WomensHistoryMonth.
This #WomensHistoryMonth, learn the story of the once-forgotten climate scientist, activist, and inventor, Eunice Foote, with help from the #InitialConditions podcast and Sir @Roland_Jackson. 🎧 Listen here:
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. and what about me?!.
The Darwin Correspondence Project has ended, but .continues to host not only the Darwin correspondence, but to put it next to that of Wallace, Faraday, Herschel, and Henslow, now with added letters by Mary Somerville!.
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Sadly, I appear to have lost any correspondence I might have had with Mr Hyde Hills.
@ProfTyndall Only you can solve the mystery.
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RT @diarmidf: Can any #JohnTyndall experts help me locate a cartoon showing the Catholic bishops of Ireland driving Tyndall (the snake) out….
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It's 148 years since I married Louisa, and my 35th wedding anniversary today!.
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RT @Roland_Jackson: 'Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State' has been hard to get in UK, but is at 30% discount from @UP….
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Sound advice.
Tyndall to Spencer, 4 Oct 1887. ". you shall have half a glass of No. 1. Burton Ale, which has an astoundingly soporific influence.". Health advice to out-do them all. (2/2). #histsci #twitterstorians.
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