@ProfTyndall

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
rolandjackson.co.uk/the-ascent-of-john-tyndall
Joined October 2012
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I will be in paperback around 23 July! If you would like, you can pre-order... global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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Transcription help: letter from Stanley to Tyndall (1880): "I suppose that the Telegraphic m[ee]t[in]g will take up the ev[en]ing—otherwise the Professor c[ou]ld be spared for an hour. [Please] do not take [pains] to answer, [as I shall] [???] that the [???] is [???]." #histsci
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Those were the days
Efram Sera-Shriar 👻 (@dreframss.bsky.social)@DrEframSS14 Nov 2024
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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John Herschel was much more than just an astronomer. My latest book explains why: upittpress.org/books/9780822…
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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 Royal Society
@royalsociety2 Aug 2024
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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Just received my early copy of the new Henry Roscoe biography by Peter Morris and Peter Reed, which I enjoyed reading in draft. Available from OUP.
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Rededication this afternoon of the gravestone of @ProfTyndall and Louisa in Haslemere, complete with reading of his poetry 1/2
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I have to admit, Eunice Foote does deserve to be better known #WomensHistoryMonth
Niels Bohr Library & Archives@AIP_Library25 Mar 2024
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: aip.org/initialconditions/eu…
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...and what about me?!
Epsilon_status@Epsilon951662091 Mar 2023
The Darwin Correspondence Project has ended, but Epsilon.ac.uk 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.
Katherine Mathieson@Kath_Math7 Mar 2024
Replying to @ProfTyndall
@ProfTyndall Only you can solve the mystery.... rigb.org/explore-science/exp…

John Tyndall and the mystery of 338 | Royal Institution

Discover the fascinating background of one of the rarest artefacts in our archive.

rigb.org
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It's 148 years since I married Louisa, and my 35th wedding anniversary today!
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Book Review: thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/02…

Politicians (not) taking advice from experts in 19th-century Britain.

Roland Jackson is a historian of nineteenth-century science in Great Britain, who is the author of a highly praised biography of John Tyndall, The Ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian Scientist, Mount…

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'Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State' has been hard to get in UK, but is at 30% discount from @UPittPress to 14 May shipped from US. Use code JACKSON30 (not JACKSONFIVE @rmathematicus). Link: cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu… Just enter no. of copies and add to cart.
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Sound advice
James Stark@KingTekkers8 Feb 2024
Replying to @KingTekkers
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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I see @ProfTyndall is in at No.1.
Yuan Yi Zhu
@yuanyi_z29 Jan 2024
I don't want to do the whole decline thing, but this is what was included in an anthology of “the world's best literature for children” published a century ago.
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Memorial to John Ruskin at Friar's Crag, Derwentwater.
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What about my poetry? Am I for ever to be ignored? uclpress.co.uk/products/1682…
MATTHEW DANIEL EDDY 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social@BookScribbler30 Dec 2023
Fabulous to see the Guardian's article about the Sir Humphry Davy Notebooks Project - @SharonRuston Reams of secret poetry by pioneering British scientist finally come to light theguardian.com/science/2023…

Reams of secret poetry by pioneering British scientist finally come to light

Sir Humphry Davy’s unpublished verse – including one published below for the first time – was found in notebooks alongside details of his groundbreaking experiments

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A supplement to Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State. 31 case studies that had to be left out of the main book. Includes scientific advice on vaccination policy (some things haven't changed!). Only £2.99 on Kindle, also PB and HB: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CM9552N5

Case Studies in Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State

A companion to , published by Pittsburgh University Press (2023). This book contains 31 case studies. Their length varies greatly, from substantial treatments of topics such as vaccination and public...

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Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State. Advance copies are here! I must say they are very fine. Huge thanks to @AbbySCollier & @UPittPress & to supportive words from John Gascoigne, @beckyfh & William Ashworth. Publication 14 November. upittpress.org/books/9780822…
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This is true.
🦋 Dr. Dan Cady 🇺🇦@DanCady22 Mar 2023
1 - Layman's science today: CO₂ absorbs & reemits infrared radiation. This is a testable hypothesis & could be falsified. It was demonstrated true in the mid-19th century by Tyndall & has never ever been disproven. The physical properties of CO₂ are immutable. #ClimateBrawl
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