The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 15 - by Richard England & Tanya O'Sullivan (Hardcover)

About the Book

Tyndall Continues Scientific Experiments and Marries Louisa Hamilton

Book Synopsis

The fifteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall contains 466 letters covering the period from November 1875 to December 1877. Tyndall was by now an established man of science with a far-reaching reputation. The most significant work he undertook in this period involved his experiments on spontaneous generation and his consulting for Trinity House on lighthouse illuminations and sound-signaling. Alongside these projects, he married Louisa Hamilton in a small ceremony in London on February 29, 1876. This event offers a brief respite from the intense scientific and technical communications that dominate his life in the mid-1870s, and subsequent letters reveal his newfound domestic happiness.

About the Author

Richard England (Editor)
Richard England is a professor of philosophy and dean of the Pine Honors College at Eastern Illinois University. With Bernard Lightman and Catherine Marshall, he edited the Papers of the Metaphysical Society (2015) as well as a volume of essays about them (2019). His current projects focus on science and the Bible in the nineteenth century, and on technology and distraction in twenty-first-century higher education.

Tanya O'Sullivan (Editor)
Tanya O'Sullivan is an independent researcher based in Northern Ireland. She is the author of Geographies of City Science: Urban Lives and Origin Debates in Late Victorian Dublin.