The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 14: The Correspondence, October 1873-October 1875 by Dawson, Gowan

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 14: The Correspondence, October 1873-October 1875 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780822948186)

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The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 14: The Correspondence, October 1873-October 1875 by Dawson, Gowan

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 14: The Correspondence, October 1873-October 1875

$150.00
The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 14: The Correspondence, October 1873-October 1875 by Dawson, Gowan

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 14: The Correspondence, October 1873-October 1875

$150.00
Format: Hardcover
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The 499 letters in the fourteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall cover a number of particularly intense and acrimonious disputes. More notably, this volume spans the period of the composition, delivery, and furious reaction to Tyndall's famous--or, more accurately, infamous--Belfast Address. This prestigious lecture, which he delivered as the newly inaugurated president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, has long been heralded as one of the most momentous events of the nineteenth century. The letters in this volume provide a new, and unprecedentedly detailed, account of all aspects of the era-defining address. For Tyndall himself, it afforded a new level of prominence as a public intellectual, and he deployed his position to engage directly with some of the most contentious issues in Victorian society, especially the role of religion in relation to science. But Tyndall's expertise was also required on more practical matters, and the letters in this volume document his extensive role in determining official government policy on urgent questions such as safety at sea and public health. Additionally, they chart a dramatic shift in his personal life, with his initial correspondence with Louisa Hamilton, with whom he had previously communicated only through her family, marking the point where their burgeoning friendship developed into a formal relationship.

Author: Gowan Dawson
ISBN-10: 0822948184
ISBN-13: 9780822948186
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 12/23/2024
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover
By Gowan Dawson
By Gowan Dawson
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Gowan Dawson is professor of Victorian literature and culture at the University of Leicester and honorary research fellow at the Natural History Museum, London. His books include Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America and Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability.

Matthew Stanley is a professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. He is the author of Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I, Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington, and Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon.

Matthew Wale is the author of Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain. He completed his PhD in history at the University of Leicester in 2018.

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