Victorian Scientist, Mountaineer, and Public Intellectual
by
Roland Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Rising from a humble background in rural southern Ireland, John Tyndall became one of the foremost physicists, communicators of science, and polemicists in mid-Victorian Britain. In science, he is known for his important work in meteorology, climate science, magnetism, acoustics, and bacteriology....