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Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 1, The - The Correspondence, May 1840-August 1843 (Hardcover)
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Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 1, The - The Correspondence, May 1840-August 1843 (Hardcover)
Series: The Correspondence of John Tyndall
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The 230 letters in this inaugural volume of The Correspondence of
John Tyndall chart Tyndall's emergence into early adulthood,
spanning from his arrival in Youghal in May 1840 as a civil
assistant with just a year's experience working on the Irish
Ordnance Survey to his pseudonymous authorship of an open letter to
the prime minister, Robert Peel, protesting the pay and conditions
on the English Survey in August 1843. The letters, which include
Tyndall's earliest extant correspondence, encompass some of the
most significant events of the early 1840s. Tyndall's
correspondents also discuss their experiences of British military
expansion in India and economic migration to North America, among
other topics. The letters show the development of many of the
traits and talents, both mathematical and literary, that would
subsequently make Tyndall one of most prominent men of science in
Victorian Britain. They also afford broader insights into a period
of almost unprecedented social upheaval and cultural and
technological change that ultimately shaped Tyndall's development
into adulthood.
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