John Tyndall

Standard Name: Tyndall, John

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Emily Shirreff
ES 's circle of friends included Sir William Grove (inventor of the Grove battery), scientist Mary Somerville , lawyer and Royal Society president Lord Wrottesley , astronomer Sir George Biddell Airy , Sir John Herschel
Health Christopher St John
Louisa was the widow of the physicist John Tyndall , who had died in 1893. Christabel was reported by her mother as being very brave about missing the family Christmas.
qtd. in
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
287
She later spent ten...
Leisure and Society Dorothy Bussy
Dorothy's parents numbered among their friends and acquaintances many prominent artists, scientists, and politicians. These included Browning , Ruskin , Tennyson , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Francis Galton , Percy Lubbock , and John Tyndall
Textual Features Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
She calls on popular women writers to assert their claim to national recognition
qtd. in
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
210
for fear that male voices (such as Huxley , Darwin , and Tyndall ) will dominate, leaving nothing for discussion except...

Timeline

1864: The X-Club, a small group of influential...

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1864

The X-Club , a small group of influential London scientists, was formed.
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
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Morrell, J. B. “The Patronage of Mid-Victorian Science in the University of Edinburgh”. The Patronage of Science in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Gerard L’Estrange Turner, Noordhoff International, 1976, pp. 53-93.
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Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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1864-1867: The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature,...

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1864-1867

The Reader, a weekly Review of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Roos, David A. “The Aims and Intentions of Nature”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 159-80.
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appeared.
Roos, David A. “The Aims and Intentions of Nature”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 159-80.
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19 August 1874: John Tyndall attacked religion at a British...

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19 August 1874

John Tyndall attacked religion at a British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Belfast.
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
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Sawyer, Paul L. “Ruskin and Tyndall: The Poetry of Matter and the Poetry of Spirit”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 217-46.
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