The ascent of John Tyndall : Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual / Sir Roland Jackson.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2018.
Descrizione fisica:
XX, 556, [16] p. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of plates. A note on words. Abbreviations. Introduction. Pt. 1. From Carlow to Marburg (c.1822-1850): 1. Irish beginnings (c. 1822-1844) 2. Railway mania (1844-1847) 3. Queenwood college (1847-1848) 4. Marburg (1848-1850). Pt. 2. Breaking in (1850-1860): 5. Making a name (1850-1853) 6. Clash of theories (1854-1856) 7. Glacial explorations (1856-1857) 8. Storms over glaciers (1858-1860). Pt. 3. The peak years (1860-1870): 9. Radiant heat (1859-1862) 10. Heated exchanges (1862-1865) 11. The X-Club (1864-1866) 12. Eyre affair and death of Faraday (1866-1868) 13. Prayer, miracles, metaphysics and spirits (1865-1880) 14. Mountaineering in the 1860s (1860-1868) 15. Cloud of imagination (1868-1870). Pt. 4. Establishment figure (1870-1880): 16. Dust and disease (1870-1872) 17. Government service and education (1871-1892) 18. America (1872-1873) 19. Fogs and glaciers (1873) 20. The Belfast address (1873-1876) 21. Floating matter of the art (1875-1876) 22. Contamination (1876-1878) 23. Electric lights and mining accidents (1879-1886). Pt. 5. Political affairs (1880-1893): 24. Hindhead (1880-1883) 25. Rainbows and lighthouses (1883-1885) 26. The final years (1886-1893). Epilogue. Map of the Alps, showing many of the places visited / by John Tyndall. Publisher's acknowledgements. Picture captions & credits. Notes. Bibliography. Index
